Luchino Nefaria is a wealthy Italian aristocrat and traditionalist that also desires greater wealth and power, driving him to join the Maggia criminal organization. The recently formed Avengers superhero team, however, thwart many of his plans and force a direct conflict, so Nefaria lures the Avengers to his castle on the pretence of a charity event, and places the group in suspended animation, using images which threaten to take control of America. After he releases them, the Avengers become suspicious of him after hearing they are wanted and they cannot remember what happened at the castle. They go to the castle, however nearly all of them are paralyzed by Nefaria's gas. Meanwhile, the Teen Brigade were captured by Nefaria, and when they tried to contact the Avengers were thrown in a dungeon which would place them into suspended animation if they touched the walls. Captain America gets into the castle without touching the ground, other Avengers, or walls, and freed the Teen Brigade, who gave the antidote to the Avengers. Captain America was also paralyzed, and with his hands and feet attached to ropes he was suspended between floor and ceiling, where Nefaria mocked him, saying he would be a hero for capturing him. However, Iron Man then burst through the wall. Neferia was defeated and deported after an officer heard him confess to being in the Maggia.[1] In retaliation, Nefaria then unsuccessfully attempts to destroy Iron Man,[2] and then suffers yet another defeat when stopped by the mutantX-Men team.[3] Nefaria reappears several years later and attempts to take control of the United States base NORAD, but is stopped by the X-Men once again. Nefaria attempts to escape in a plane which is attacked by the X-Man Thunderbird. The plane then explodes, killing Thunderbird and injuring Nefaria.[4]

Now virtually destitute and discredited, Nefaria hires the supervillains Living Laser, Power Man and Whirlwind to form the second Lethal Legion. The group rob several banks, and unwittingly finance an experiment Nefaria has created in a bid to become superhuman. Employing the former scientific adviser to Baron Heinrich Zemo, Nefaria devises a means of temporarily amplifying the abilities of the Lethal Legion, and then sends them into combat against the Avengers. The effect, however, is temporary and once defeated their combined abilities are drained by Nefaria, who possesses them magnified a hundredfold. After a long and protracted battle, Nefaria is finally defeated.[5]

Nefaria is then kept in isolation and under observation by the Avengers, and it is discovered that the process to empower him makes Nefaria immortal but vulnerable as his body reconfigures itself. Whitney Frost, also known as Madame Masque and the daughter of Nefaria, attempts to find a cure for what is believed to be his deteriorating condition. She hires the Ani-Men to attack Avengers Mansion and free her father. While battling Iron Man, Nefaria's life-support system is severed and his weakened form is crushed by a stored Jupiter Landing Vehicle.[6] Nefaria briefly reappears some time later as a corpse reanimated by the Grim Reaper. Grim Reaper directs Nefaria to attack the Avengers, but loses control soon afterwards and Nefaria dies once again.[7]

Nefaria eventually reappears, but in an ionic humanoid form, and constantly requires ionic energy to sustain his existence. He battles Iron Man[8] and later Captain America and Ka-Zar in the Savage Land as he attempts to find sources of energy.[9] Nefaria then plans to detonate an ionic bomb, which will transform millions of people into an ionic state which he can then control, perceiving it as the best way to guarantee that he receives the respect that he feels he deserves. Nefaria gains control of the ionic heroes Wonder Man and Atlas who he intends to use to kill the Avengers, but he is stopped by the combined efforts of the Avengers, fellow superhero team the Thunderbolts and Madame Masque, Masque using a weapon she had developed to disrupt Nefaria's own ionic energy.[10] He is next seen as an inmate of The Raft, a prison for supervillains, and escapes when Electro stages a mass breakout.[11]

Following the Siege storyline, Madame Masque sought out her father to help the Hood after Loki took back the Norn Stones. The New Avengers capture John King (Hood's cousin) and use him to track the Hood and Madame Masque. After a battle with Count Nefaria, they capture the villains and bring all four of them to Maria Hill to place them under arrest.[12]

Count Nefaria was a normal human until subjected to a process perfected by one of Baron Heinrich Zemo's scientists Dr. Kenneth Sturdy which granted him the combined powers of the villains the Living Laser (energy projection), Power Man (strength), and Whirlwind (speed), amplified a hundredfold.[volume & issue needed] Because of this, Nefaria is one of the physically strongest known humans in the Marvel Universe. He has toppled a 40-story building with little effort,[volume & issue needed] withstood a blow from Wonder Man without flinching,[volume & issue needed] fought an enraged Thor to a standstill with no apparent damage from strikes of his hammer, even stopping it with his bare hand,[18] and has withstood simultaneous attacks by multiple teams of Avengers at once and laughed it off.[volume & issue needed]

The character then aged until his body evolved,[volume & issue needed] and eventually shifted to an ionic form, able to create ionic constructs and manipulate other ionic beings.[volume & issue needed] As such, Nefaria is now effectively immortal, and virtually indestructible. He also has the power of flight when before he could only leap great distances.[volume & issue needed] He once showcased a new power allowing him to surround his opponents in ionic energy and move them wherever telekinetically.[19] Although it is possible to deplete Nefaria's ionic energy in combat by forcing him to expend energy faster than his body can replenish it, Giant-Man has calculated that it would take three weeks of constant combat – without even giving Nefaria time to pause for breath – for even the combined forces of the Avengers and the Thunderbolts to deplete Nefaria's ionic energy reserves completely in that manner.[volume & issue needed] However, Madame Masque has developed a weapon that disrupts Nefaria's ionic energy.[20]

In the pages of Old Man Logan, the elderly Logan awoke on Earth-616 and had a flashback to where Count Nefaria, Red Skull, Baron Blood, Spiral, and Whirlwind were standing over the dead bodies of the superheroes the day when the villains rose and the heroes fell.[23]

Count Nefaria appears in the What If? story "What If the X-Men Died on their First Mission?" at the time he and the Ani-Men have taken control of NORAD (Uncanny X-Men #94-95). With the X-Men having perished in a prior fight with Krakoa, the former X-Man Beast hastily assembles a mutant team to combat Nefaria. While attempting to flee, Nefaria's jet is brought down by Theresa Cassidy. Though Nefaria escapes, Theresa avoids mainstream Thunderbird's fate when her teammate James Proudstar catches her before she falls to her death.[24]

Count Nefaria appears in Iron Man: Armored Adventures, voiced by Russell Roberts. This version sports a cane that shoots electricity and is one, if the only known boss, of the Maggia. In the episode "Pepper, Interrupted", he and the Black Knight and his Maggia have a negotiation with the Mandarin when some Maggia members catch Pepper Potts snooping around the meeting area. When Iron Man arrives, a fight between the Tong and the Maggia breaks out. When Pepper tries to maneuver through the fight, Nefaria orders his men to catch Pepper. Mandarin (in the Gene Kahn alias) ends up saving Pepper as Nefaria ends up getting word that the police are approaching. Nefaria and Black Knight are arrested alongside the Maggia troops that didn't escape. In the episode "Armor Wars", Nefaria and his henchmen rob a bank when Guardsmen members Force and Shockwave appeared. Nefaria knocks down Force and Shockwave, but was defeated by Iron Man. It was later revealed by Pepper to Tony Stark upon going into the FBI Database that Force and Shockwave worked for the Maggia before being outfitted with the Guardsmen armor by Obadiah Stane which meant to Tony that Force and Shockwave had Nefaria fake a bank robbery all along. The episode "The Hawk and the Spider" revealed that Barney Barton is in debt to Nefaria. Hawkeye and Black Widow planned to give the User Interface Chip they took from Iron Man (after swiping it from Stark International) until the User Interface Chip is taken from them by Justin Hammer (in the Titanium Man armor). In the episode "The Hammer Falls", Hammer has Nefaria captured where Justin suspects him as the person who's been blackmailing and subjects him to the Zombie Gas.

A version of Count Nefaria is a frequent "guest" on the X-Men-centric podcast Uncanny X-Cast. This version is a vampire and speaks with a stereotypical vampire accent, similar to Count von Count from Sesame Street. One of the two hosts has a negative opinion, and usually tries to convince the other host to make the Count "leave".

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Count Nefarious
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Toonstruck is an adventure game released in 1996. The game features hand-drawn imagery and animated characters, but the protagonist Drew Blanc is represented as a video-captured live-action character interacting with the world around him. Toonstruck is an adventure game where the player controls Christopher Lloyds digitized likeness. The game uses a Bottomless Bag as an icon. Drew Blanc is an animator and the original creator of the Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun Show. This show has been a ten year success for his company. His self-revered creation, Flux Wildly, a wise-talking and sarcastic small purple character, has denied the chance of starring in his own show. Drews boss, Sam Schmaltz, sets him the task of designing more bunnies to co-star in the Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun Show by the next morning, however, the depressed animator soon nods off, suffering from acute artists block. He wakes early the morning to inexplicably find his television switched on. Suddenly, Drew is mysteriously drawn into the screen and transported to an idyllic two-dimensional cartoon world populated by his own creations. He is tasked with hunting down and stopping this madman, thereby restoring peace and harmony to the land, several famous actors provide the voice talent for the game. Drew Blanc, An animator who, upon being pulled into a world populated by his characters. Maxine, Drews wife and Schmaltzs assistant, Cutopia is the land of all the happy and adorable Cutopians and is overlooked by King Hughs castle. King Hugh, The smiley king of Cutopia and he sends Drew and Flux on a mission to find items for the Cutifier in exchange for helping Drew return to the real world. Bricabrac, King Hughs scatterbrained engineer who creates and builds the Cutifier, looks like an actual giant foot. Sparky and Chipper, King Hughs guards, Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun, The sugar-sweet rabbit of Cutopia, whose job is to be the cutest rabbit in the whole wide world. However, she is not all that she seems, dough, Ray and Mee, The singing frogs who work in the bakery. Ms. Fit, The proprietor of the Costumarama in Cutopia, Marge, The sweet cow who makes butter for Cutopia in the barn

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Avengers (comics)
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The Avengers are a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team made its debut in The Avengers #1, created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, labeled Earths Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers originally consisted of Hank Pym, the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, and the Wasp. The original Captain America was discovered, trapped in ice, a rotating roster became a hallmark, although one theme remained consistent, the Avengers fight the foes no single superhero can withstand. The team, famous for its battle cry of Avengers Assemble. has featured humans, mutants, inhumans, robots, aliens, supernatural beings, and even former villains. The team has appeared in a variety of media outside of comic books including a number of different animated television series. A second Avengers film titled Avengers, Age of Ultron was released on May 1,2015, the team debuted in The Avengers #1. Much like the Justice League, the Avengers were an assemblage of pre-existing superhero characters created by Lee, between 1996 and 2004, Marvel relaunched the primary Avengers title three times. In 1996, the Heroes Reborn line took place in an alternate universe, the Avengers vol.3 relaunched and ran for 84 issues from February 1998 to August 2004. In January 2005, a new version of the team appeared in the ongoing title The New Avengers, followed by The Mighty Avengers, Avengers, The Initiative, Avengers vol.4 debuted in July 2010 and ran until January 2013. Vol.5 was launched in February 2013, after Secret Wars, a new Avengers team debuted, dubbed the All-New, All-Different Avengers, starting with a Free Comic Book Day preview. After the group vanquished Loki, Ant-Man stated that the five worked well together and suggested they form a team, Captain America soon joined the team in issue #4, and he was given founding member status in the Hulks place. The Avengers went on to fight such as Baron Zemo, who formed the Masters of Evil, Kang the Conqueror, Wonder Man. The next milestone came when every member but Captain America resigned, Giant-Man, now calling himself Goliath, and the Wasp rejoined. Hercules became part of the team, while the Black Knight, Spider-Man was offered membership but did not join the group. The Black Panther joined after rescuing the team from the Grim Reaper, the X-Men #45 featured a crossover with The Avengers #53. This was followed by the introduction of the android the Vision, Pym assumed the new identity of Yellowjacket in issue #59, and married the Wasp the following month. The Avengers headquarters was in a New York City building called Avengers Mansion, the team encountered new characters such as Arkon in issue #75, and Red Wolf in #80. The Avengers briefly disband when Skrulls impersonating Captain America, Thor, the true founding Avengers, minus the Wasp, reformed the team in response after complaints from Jarvis

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Ernie Chan
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Chan also had a long tenure on Batman and Detective Comics. Other than his work on Batman, Chan primarily focused on characters, staying mostly in the genres of horror, war. Ernie Chan was born Ernie Chua due to what he called an error on my birth certificate that I had to use until I had a chance to change it to Chan when I got my citizenship in 76. He migrated to the United States in 1970 and became a citizen in 1976, for a number of years, he worked under the name Ernie Chua, but he was later credited as Ernie Chan. He studied with John Buscema, and also worked with him as the inker on Conan during the 1970s, by 1974, he was working regularly for Marvel Comics on Conan the Barbarian. From 1975–1976, Chan worked exclusively for DC, including the artwork for Claw the Unconquered, while working on the Detective Comics series, he drew the first appearances of Captain Stingaree in issue #460 and the Black Spider in #463. Under the name Chua, he was DC Comics primary cover artist from approximately 1975 to 1977, Chan pencilled several issues of Conan and Doctor Strange, and worked on Kull the Destroyer in 1977 and Power Man and Iron Fist in the 1980s. From about 1978 onward, he worked almost exclusively for Marvel, in the early 1990s he joined Sega, providing character design and art for video games such as Eternal Champions. In 2002, he retired except for commissioned artwork, but returned to comics to draw writer Andrew Zars adult-oriented webcomic The Vat #1 in 2009, Chan was based in Oakland, California, and had three children, his daughter Cleo Caron Chan was born April 25,1978. Ernie Chan died in mid-May 2012 after a yearlong battle with cancer. Comics work includes, The Vat Adventure Comics #437-438, #441 Batman #262-264,267, 269-270, 273-283 Captain Carrot,2 #8 Doctor Strange vol.2 #27-29 Haunt of Horror #1 King Conan #5,10 Kull the Conqueror vol. Ernie Chan at the Comic Book DB Ernie Chua at the Comic Book DB

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Marvel Comics
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Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc. formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwides parent company, Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvels modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. Most of Marvels fictional characters operate in a reality known as the Marvel Universe. Martin Goodman founded the later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. The issue was a success, with it and a second printing the following month selling, combined. While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc, Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. It, too, proved a hit, with sales of one million. Goodman formed Timely Comics, Inc. beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941, Goodman hired his wifes cousin, Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles, Goodmans business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55. As well, some covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12, were labeled A Marvel Magazine many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961. The post-war American comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion and this globe branding united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications. Atlas also published a plethora of childrens and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlos Homer the Happy Ghost, Atlas unsuccessfully attempted to revive superheroes from late 1953 to mid-1954, with the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Atlas did not achieve any hits and, according to Stan Lee, Atlas survived chiefly because it produced work quickly, cheaply. During this time, the Comic Code Authority made its debut in September 1954, Wertham published the book Seduction of the Innocent in order to force people to see that comics were impacting American youth. He believed violent comics were causing children to be reckless and were turning them into delinquents, in September 1954, comic book publishers got together to set up their own self-censorship organization—the Comics Magazine Association of America—in order to appease audiences

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Stan Lee
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Stan Lee is an American comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. In addition, he challenged the comics industrys censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation. He was inducted into the book industrys Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994. Lee received a National Medal of Arts in 2008 and his father, trained as a dress cutter, worked only sporadically after the Great Depression, and the family moved further uptown to Fort Washington Avenue, in Washington Heights, Manhattan. When Lee was nearly 9, his sibling, brother Larry Lieber, was born. He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies, by the time Lee was in his teens, the family was living in a one-bedroom apartment at 1720 University Avenue in The Bronx. Lee has described it as an apartment facing out back, with he and his brother sharing a bedroom. Lee attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, in his youth, Lee enjoyed writing, and entertained dreams of one day writing the Great American Novel. He graduated from school early, aged 16½ in 1939. With the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon, Lee became an assistant in 1939 at the new Timely Comics division of pulp magazine, Timely, by the 1960s, would evolve into Marvel Comics. Lee, whose cousin Jean was Goodmans wife, was hired by Timely editor Joe Simon. His duties were prosaic at first, in those days dipped the pen in ink, I had to make sure the inkwells were filled, Lee recalled in 2009. I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that he had intended to save his given name for more literary work. This initial story also introduced Captain Americas trademark ricocheting shield-toss, which became one of the characters signatures. He graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a feature, Headline Hunter, Foreign Correspondent. Lees first superhero co-creation was the Destroyer, in Mystic Comics #6, other characters he created during this period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comics include Jack Frost, debuting in USA Comics #1, and Father Time, debuting in Captain America Comics #6. When Simon and his creative partner Jack Kirby left late in 1941, following a dispute with Goodman, Lee entered the United States Army in early 1942 and served in the US in the Signal Corps, repairing telegraph poles and other communications equipment. He was later transferred to the Training Film Division, where he worked writing manuals, training films, and slogans and his military classification, he says, was playwright, he adds that only nine men in the US Army were given that title

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Don Heck
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He called me up and asked me to join. Heck also did freelance assignments for Quality Comics, Hillman Comics, pictorial in 1955, he drew the one-shot Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion, a TV tie-in comic based on the 1955-57 syndicated, live-action kids show of that name. Through his old Harvey Comics colleague Pete Morisi, Heck in 1954 met Marvel Comics architect Stan Lee, editor-in-chief and art director of Marvels 1950 predecessor, Atlas Comics. As Heck recalled, Pete Morisi, who worked at Media at the time, had been to Stan Lees office. One of my stories was in there, and Stan kept going back to my story, saying, This is the way you should have done it. Look, if you want Don Heck to come up here, hes looking for work, Stan said, Well, if he happened to walk up here, I might have a story for him. So I went up there on a Wednesday afternoon, Stan never saw anybody on Wednesdays, and he never saw anybody in the afternoon. He looked at the first two pages and said, Aw, hell, I know what your stuff looks like. Then I did Torpedo Taylor for Navy Combat, drawing that five- or six-page feature in issues #1-14 and 16 and, oddly, Heck also contributed to such Atlas/Marvel romance comics as Love Romances and My Own Romance. Comics artist Jerry Ordway, describing this era of Hecks work and his Atlas work was terrific, with a clean sharp style, and an ink line that wouldnt quit. Kirby designed the costume, Heck recalled, because he was doing the cover, the covers were always done first. But I created the look of the characters, like Tony Stark, Jack claimed to have laid out those stories, and I repeated his claim in print — though not before checking with Heck, who said, in effect, Oh, yeah. We all later realized he was mistaken, both also believed that Jack had contributed to the plots of those debut appearances — recollections that do not match those of Stan Lee. Also, in cases, Jack had already drawn the covers of those issues and done some amount of design work. He came up with the look of Iron Mans armor. Heck himself recalled in 1985 that while some sources claimed then that Jack Kirby did breakdowns. thats not true and they just didnt bother to call me up and find out when they wrote up the credits. Jack Kirby created the costume, and he did the cover for the issue, in fact the second costume, the red and yellow one, was designed by Steve Ditko. I found it easier than drawing that bulky old thing, the earlier design, the robot-looking one, was more Kirbyish

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Maggia (comics)
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The Maggia is a fictional international crime syndicate appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The organization exists in Marvels main shared universe, known as Earth-616 and its structure is somewhat similar to the Mafia, but the Maggia differs in that it frequently hires supervillains and mad scientists to work for them. The characters Count Nefaria and his daughter Madame Masque have both been leaders of an important Maggia family, the Maggia first appeared in The Avengers #13 and was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck. The Maggia is an crime syndicate that is the worlds most powerful organization dedicated to conventional crime. Originating in southern Europe, the Maggia spread throughout non-Communist Europe and its presence in the United States first came to public attention in the 1890s, and the Maggias widespread bootlegging of illegal liquor during the Prohibition Era has become legendary. It also has influence within various labor unions, and controls politicians on every level of government. Especially in recent years, the Maggia has invested many of its illegal gains into legitimate businesses, however, the Maggia enforces a strict code of secrecy among its members, and does not hesitate to punish betrayals and failures with death. Often the Maggia marks one of its members for execution by having a Maggioso grasp the intended victim by the chin in the so-called Maggia touch, the Maggia is not a monolithic organization but is instead a coalition of many virtually independent groups known as families. The leading members of family are usually connected through familial or marital ties. The Maggia also has affiliations with other groups such as the Morgan organization in New York Citys Harlem. During the Infinity storyline, it was revealed that the Nobili Family are members of the Maggia where some of its members turned out to be descendants of some Inhumans, several families are based in the New York City area. Three of these families have come to pre-eminence, Its leader is Silvio Silvermane Manfredi and this group conducts its activities along traditional Maggia lines, and is heavily involved with the narcotics trade. Silvermane uses unusual scientific means only for the goal of staving off his own death. Although Silvermane has a son, Joseph, also known as Blackwing, his successor as family head will probably be his longtime rival, the following characters have been members of the Maggias Silvermane family, Blackie - Rank unknown. First appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #75, Caesar Cicero - The Silvermane Familys lawyer. First appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #73, Man Mountain Marko - Silvermanes top lieutenant. First appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #73, rapier - A one-time employee of Silvermane. First appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #2, killed by Scourge of the Underworld

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Legion of the Unliving
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The Legion of the Unliving are five groups of fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The five versions first appear in Avengers #131, Avengers Annual #16, Avengers West Coast #61, Avengers #353 and Avengers vol. The groups were created by Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema, Tom DeFalco and various artists, Roy Thomas and Daniel Bulanadi, Len Kaminski and Chris Eliopoulos and Kurt Busiek and George Pérez. As the name implies, the members of the Legion were all established as being deceased in Marvel continuity. Although partially successful in their mission, the Legion frees themselves from Kangs control, kang flees when confronted by the Thunder God Thor, with Immortus reviving Iron Man and healing the Vision and returning the Legion back to their respective eras. Only the Human Torch android is allowed to remain as it is revealed that the character is in fact the Vision, years before being modified by the robot Ultron. The second version of the Legion is featured in an Avengers annual, in which the Elder of the Universe the Grandmaster, almost all the Avengers are killed stopping the Legion and defusing the bombs, with only Captain America and Hawkeye surviving. The Grandmaster then proposes another competition and adds the fallen heroes to the Legion, losing the game disorients the Grandmaster and Death is released, with the entity banishing all the Elders from its realm, restoring all heroes to life and then returning them to Earth. The third version of the Legion appears in the title Avengers West Coast, Immortus himself is judged by the entities the Time Keepers and forced to become the nexus himself. When the character is confronted by the Vision and forced to accept that he committed suicide. Grim Reaper panics and is attacked and apparently consumed by Lloigoroth, with the Legions spirits departing the corpses. The Scarlet Witch, however, uses her love for Wonder Man to free him from the state his ionic form was in. Wonder Man is then able to restore the Reaper to a physical form, the humbled villain relinquishes control of the Legion, and the dead heroes speak to their comrades a final time before dying once again. Legion of the Unliving at Marvel Wiki Legion of the Unliving at marvunapp. com

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Lethal Legion
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The Lethal Legion is the name of six teams of fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first version of the Lethal Legion appeared in The Avengers #78, the second version of the Lethal Legion appeared in Avengers #164 The third version in West Coast Avengers vol. The fourth version appeared in Marvel Age Annual #1, the fifth version of the Lethal Legion appeared in Avengers West Coast #98 The sixth version of the Lethal Legion appeared in the limited series Dark Reign, Lethal Legion #1. The original Lethal Legion are formed by the villain Grim Reaper and consisted of Man-Ape, Power Man, Living Laser, Man-Ape attacks Captain America, but is beaten back by the Avengers. However, he captures the Black Panthers girlfriend Monica binding her hand, Black Panther is lured into a trap by Man-Ape, and despite getting past him he is knocked out by an exploding dummy of Monica. Black Panther is chained and with Man-Ape, he meets the members of the Lethal Legion. Grim Reaper dispatched the Lethal Legion members to different locations to meet the Avengers, Power Man and Swordsman were sent to the water main below Avengers Mansion, Living Laser and Man-Ape were sent to the nearby power station, and Grim Reaper seemingly departed to Greenwich Village. Black Panther broke free and contacted the Avengers to warn them about the Lethal Legions plot. Grim Reaper returns and uses the gas in his scythe to knock out Black Panther while revealing that he planned to have the Avengers lured to the locations of which Black Panther knew about. While the other members of the Lethal Legion defeat the different Avengers and he disguises himself as Power Man and Power Man as him and takes him to the base. The Lethal Legion places the Avengers in a container and then fills it with deadly gas. At that point, Vision aided the Avengers into defeating the Lethal Legion who are handed over to the authorities, a second version, formed by European villain Count Nefaria reappears in the title, composed of Living Laser, Whirlwind and Power Man. He magnifies their powers, but is revealed to be a ploy to steal their magnified powers in a failed bid to destroy the Avengers. The depowered villains are sent to prison, the Grim Reaper returns in the title West Coast Avengers, leading a third version against the superhero team consisting of Black Talon, Goliath, Man-Ape, Nekra, and Ultron-12. Grim Reaper has Ultron lead a squadron of robots to spring Goliath from a compound that he is imprisoned in, when Goliath is freed by Man-Ape, the three villains work together to take out the Avengers as Ultron-12 states that he has his own plans for Wonder Man. The three villains escape with an unconscious Henry Pym and Wonder Man, hawkeye figures out that Grim Reaper is behind this. The three villains meet up with Grim Reaper, internal squabbling and personal agendas overtake the villains and they are defeated and scattered. A fourth version appears in the title Marvel Age, the Lethal Legion tracked down and battle Captain America who is aided by several other Marvel heroes

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Ani-Men
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The Ani-Men is the name of several fictional teams appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Four of them are villain groups, while one of them was introduced as a team of serving the High Evolutionary. The first Ani-Men debuted in Daredevil #10 and were created by Wally Wood, the second Ani-Men debuted in Daredevil #157 and were created by Roger McKenzie, Mary Jo Duffy, Gene Colan, and Klaus Janson. The third Ani-Men debuted in Scarlet Spider Unlimited #1 and were created by Glenn Herdling, Todd Smith, the fourth Ani-Men debuted in Code of Honor #3 and were created by Chuck Dixon, Bob Wakelin, and Dærick Gröss, Sr. The next version of these Ani-Men debuted in Civil War, War Crimes #1 and were created by Frank Tieri, Staz Johnson, Tom Palmer, the fifth Ani-Men debuted in GLA #1 and were created by Dan Slott and Paul Pelletier. The original lineup of Ani-Men are recruited by a man named the Organizer, the Organizer is secretly Abner Jonas, a candidate for mayor of New York City, who sends the Ani-Men on missions to undermine the current administration. Daredevil defeats them and the Ani-Men and Organizer all go to prison, later, Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man form a team called the Unholy Three and work with the Exterminator. Count Nefaria creates a new team of Ani-Men, consisting of Dragonfly and new iterations of Ape-Man, Bird-Man, Frog-Man, nefarias scientists submit the unwilling Ani-Men to processes that give them superhuman powers. Following an assault on the NORAD base at Mount Valhalla, they are all captured by the X-Men, count Nefaria sends Ape-Man, Bird-Man, Cat-Man, and Frog-Man to kill Tony Stark. However, Spymaster had intended to kill Stark with a bomb kills the Ani-Men instead. The Exterminator, now known as Death-Stalker, recruits a new team of Ani-Men, with a new Ape-Man, Bird-Man and he sends the new Ani-Men to capture Matt Murdock. The Black Widow defeats Bird-Man, and Death-Stalker murders Ape-Man and Cat-Man upon the completion of their mission, the Bird-Man is later murdered by the Scourge of the Underworld in the Bar with No Name incident. A new group wearing the name Ani-Men are a bunch of New Men created by the High Evolutionary that carries out his orders, the High Evolutionarys Ani-Men included Buzzard, Crushtacean, Flying Fox, Komodo, and Spinneret. The Evolutionary dispatches the Ani-Men to a laboratory operated by his former assistant Miles Warren to clean up Warrens files. After three weeks, the Ani-Men are almost done with their cleanup and have spread a virus into all of Warrens files, but they are discovered by the Scarlet Spider. When the High Evolutionary teleports the Ani-Men back to his base at Wundagore. The Ani-Men come to face the members and the Scarlet Spider. During the Secret Wars storyline, a new version of the Ani-Men commit crimes while the heroes are on Battleworld and they obtain the equipment of the original Ani-Men and use it to rob a vault wagon only to be opposed by the NYPD

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Fiction
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Fiction is the classification for any story or similar work derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact. Fiction does not refer to a mode or genre, unless used in its narrowest sense to mean a literary narrative. Instead, the context of fiction is generally open to interpretation, characters and events within a fictional work may even be openly set in their own context entirely separate from the known universe, a fictional universe. Science fiction, for example, predicts or supposes technologies that are not realities at the time of the works creation, for example, Jules Vernes novel From the Earth to the Moon was published in 1865 and only in 1969 did astronaut Neil Armstrong first land on the moon. Historical fiction places imaginary characters into real historical events, in the early historical novel Waverley, Sir Walter Scotts fictional character Edward Waverley meets a figure from history, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and takes part in the Battle of Prestonpans. Some works of fiction are slightly or greatly re-imagined based on some originally true story, often, even when the author claims the fictional story is basically true, there may be artificial additions and subtractions from the true story to make it more interesting. One such example would be Tim OBriens The Things They Carried, creators of fantasy sometimes introduce entire imaginary creatures or beings such as dragons and fairies. In terms of the separation between fiction and non-fiction, the lines are now commonly understood as blurred, showing more overlap than mutual exclusion. Even fiction usually has elements of, or grounding in, truth, also, infinite fictional possibilities themselves signal the impossibility of fully knowing reality, provocatively demonstrating that there is no criterion to measure constructs of reality. The Internet has had a impact on the creation and distribution of fiction. Also, digital libraries such as Project Gutenberg make public domain texts more readily available, the combination of inexpensive home computers, the Internet and the creativity of its users has also led to new forms of fiction, such as interactive computer games or computer-generated comics. Countless forums for fan fiction can be online, where loyal followers of specific fictional realms create and distribute derivative stories. Types of literary fiction in prose, Short story, A work of at least 2,000 words, the boundary between a long short story and a novella is vague. Novella, A work of at least 17,500 words, joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness is an example of a novella. Novel, A work of 50,000 words or more, cartoonist Character Fiction writing Legend Mythology Non-fiction Pseudohistory Eco, Umberto 2009. On the ontology of fictional characters, A semiotic approach

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Supervillain
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A supervillain is a variant of the villainous stock character archetype commonly found in American comic books, sometimes possessing superhuman abilities. A supervillain is the antithesis of a superhero, Supervillains are often used as foils to present a daunting challenge to a superhero. Other traits may include megalomania and possession of considerable resources to further their aims, many supervillains share some typical characteristics of real world dictators, gangsters, and terrorists, with aspirations of world domination or universal leadership. Some notable examples of female supervillains are Catwoman, Mystique, Harley Quinn, Talia al Ghul, Supervillains are sometimes members of supervillain groups, such as the Sinister Six, the Suicide Squad, the Brotherhood of Mutants, the Injustice League, and the Masters of Evil. The dictionary definition of supervillain at Wiktionary Media related to Supervillains at Wikimedia Commons

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American comic book
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An American comic book is a thin periodical, typically 32-pages, containing primarily comics content. While the form originated in 1933, American comic books first gained popularity after the 1938 publication of Action Comics and this was followed by a superhero boom that lasted until the end of World War II. After the war, while superheroes were marginalized, the book industry rapidly expanded, and genres such as horror, crime. The 1950s saw a decline, due to a shift away from print media in the wake of television. The late 1950s and the 1960s saw a revival. Since the later 20th century, comic books have gained note as collectable items, Comic shops cater to fans, and particularly valuable issues have fetched in excess of a million dollars. Systems of grading comic books have emerged with plastic sleeves and cardboard backing available to maintain the condition of comic books, standard comics are 6.625 inches ×10.25 inches and about 32 pages long. While comics can be the work of a creator, the labour of making them is frequently divided between a number of specialists. There may be a writer and artist, or there may be separate artists for the characters. The process begins with the coming up with an idea or concept, then working it into a plot and story. After the art production, letters are placed on the page, the creative team, the writers and artists, may work with a comic book publisher for help with marketing, advertising, and other logistics. A distributor like Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest in the U. S. helps to distribute the product to retailers. Another part of the involved in successful comics is the interaction between the readers/fans and the creator. Fan art and letters to the editor were printed in the back of the book until the early 21st century. Comic specialty stores did help encourage several waves of independently-produced comics, the development of the modern American comic book happened in stages. The G. W. Dillingham Company published the first known proto-comic-book magazine in the U. S, the Yellow Kid in McFaddens Flats, in 1897. The 196-page, square-bound, black-and-white publication, which also includes text by E. W. Townsend, measured 5×7 inches. The neologism comic book appears on the back cover, despite the publication of a series of related Hearst comics soon afterward, the first monthly proto-comic book, Embee Distributing Companys Comic Monthly, did not appear until 1922

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Madame Masque
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Madame Masque is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Over the years, Madame Masque has appeared in forms of media, including animated television series. Most notably, Whitney Frost appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series Agent Carter, Whitney Frost first appeared in Tales of Suspense #98, and was created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan. She first appeared as Madame Masque in Iron Man #17, Madame Masque was born as Giulietta Nefaria, the daughter of the master criminal Count Luchino Nefaria, in Rome, Italy. Frost called the child Whitney and raised her as his own, as a young adult, Whitney was a debutante and socialite, and became engaged to politician Roger Vane. Whitney at first refused, but when she tells Roger about her father, Roger leaves her, Whitney accepted her fathers offer to become a professional criminal mastermind and was trained by the Count in strategy, criminal activities and combat. She turned out to be a brilliant student and when her father is imprisoned, she becomes the new Big M and her role as Big M brought her into conflict with Iron Man. Whitney was forced to flee after a raid on Stark Industries, the plane she escaped in crashed and Whitneys face was scarred, but she was saved by the criminal Mordecai Midas and started to work for him. Midas is obsessed with gold and Whitney hides her face behind a golden mask, Madame Masque meets Tony Stark and the latter shows concern for her despite her scarred face. She turns on Midas to save Stark, but leaves Stark because of her criminal past, unable to forget Stark, she returns as Krissy Longfellow, Starks personal secretary. Both come to each others secret identity and start a romantic relationship. Their happiness is short-lived as Count Nefaria is dying due to a result of an attempt to gain superhuman powers, Whitney hires the Ani-Men to bring her father to her and then asks Stark to find a cure for her father. Nefaria tries to use violence to force Stark, and a battle starts between the Ani-Men and Iron Man, Whitney is unable to choose between her father and her lover, and when Nefarias life-support is damaged in the fight, she goes insane with guilt and grief. Whitney returns to the Nefaria Maggia and as The Director becomes its leader and she often fights Iron Man and his friends. At one point, Frost becomes paranoid and starts to create copies of herself, one of her bio-duplicates, known as Masque, becomes an ally of the Avengers. She also creates robotic servants known as the Inner Guard and names them individually after notable historical traitors, Benedict, Brutus, Fawkes, Quisling, Monmouth, one member of the Inner Guard, Benedict, recaptures Masque for Whitney. Masque tries to convince her the Avengers are benevolent and that she should reach out to Stark again and she continues to be a criminal figure of importance, until her father returns from the dead once again and destroys her base. Masque again tries unsuccessfully to convince her to side with the heroes, Masque uses a weapon designed to disrupt Nefarias ionic energy that Whitney was saving until the Avengers were dead and Nefaria weakened, and is slain by Nefaria before she can fire the weapon

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Aristocracy
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Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class. The term derives from the Greek aristokratia, meaning rule of the best, at the time of the words origins in Ancient Greece, the Greeks conceived it as rule by the best qualified citizens—and often contrasted it favourably with monarchy, rule by an individual. In later times, aristocracy was usually seen as rule by a group, the aristocratic class. The Greeks did not like the concept of monarchy, and as their democratic system fell, in Ancient Rome, the Republic consisted of an aristocracy—as well as consuls, a senate, and a tribal assembly. In the Middle Ages and early modern era, aristocracies primarily consisted of an aristocratic class, privileged by birth. Since the French Revolution, aristocracy has generally been contrasted with democracy, however, this distinction is often oversimplified. In exchange feudal aid is received from tenants or vassals, oaths of military allegiance, however an oligarchy, nobility or royalty had the right to set taxes, assemble or raise armies and command loyalty by virtue of traditional authority. In the 1651 book Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes describes an aristocracy as a commonwealth in which the representative of the citizens is an assembly by part and it is a system in which only a small part of the population represents the government. Modern depictions of aristocracy tend to regard it not as the ancient Greek concept of rule by the best, history, John Cannon, Oxford University Press,1997, ISBN 978-0-19-866176-4 Aristocracy in the Modern World, Ellis Wasson, Palgrave Macmillan,2006

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Captain America
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Captain America is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 from Timely Comics, Captain America was designed as a patriotic supersoldier who often fought the Axis powers of World War II and was Timely Comics most popular character during the wartime period. The popularity of superheroes waned following the war and the Captain America comic book was discontinued in 1950, since Marvel Comics revived the character in 1964, Captain America has remained in publication. Captain America wears a costume that bears an American flag motif, near the end of the war, he was trapped in ice and survived in suspended animation until he was revived in the present day. Captain America was the first Marvel Comics character to have appeared in media outside comics with the release of the 1944 movie serial, in 1940, writer Joe Simon conceived the idea for Captain America and made a sketch of the character in costume. I wrote the name Super American at the bottom of the page, Simon said in his autobiography, there were too many Supers around. Captain America had a sound to it. There werent a lot of captains in comics, the boy companion was simply named Bucky, after my friend Bucky Pierson, a star on our high school basketball team. Simon recalled in his autobiography that Timely Comics publisher Martin Goodman gave him the go-ahead, there were two young artists from Connecticut that had made a strong impression on me. Al Avison and Al Gabriele often worked together and were successful in adapting their individual styles to each other. Actually, their work was not too far from Kirbys, if they worked on it, and if one inker tied the three styles together, I believed the final product would emerge as quite uniform. The two Als were eager to join in on the new Captain America book, but Jack Kirby was visibly upset, youre still number one, Jack, I assured him. Its just a matter of a deadline for the first issue. Ill make the deadline, Jack promised, ill pencil it myself and make the deadline. I hadnt expected this kind of reaction, but I acceded to Kirbys wishes and, it turned out, was lucky that I did. There might have been two Als, but there was only one Jack Kirby, I wrote the first Captain America book with penciled lettering right on the drawing boards, with very rough sketches for figures and backgrounds. Kirby did his thing, building the muscular anatomy, adding ideas, then he tightened up the penciled drawings, adding detailed backgrounds, faces and figures. Al Liederman would ink that first issue, which was lettered by Simon and Kirbys regular letterer and we wanted to have our say too

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Iron Man
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Iron Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, the character made his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39. He instead creates a suit of armor to save his life. Later, Stark augments his suit with weapons and other technological devices he designed through his company and he uses the suit and successive versions to protect the world as Iron Man, while at first concealing his true identity. Initially, Iron Man was a vehicle for Stan Lee to explore Cold War themes, particularly the role of American technology, subsequent re-imaginings of Iron Man have transitioned from Cold War themes to contemporary concerns, such as corporate crime and terrorism. Iron Man has been adapted for several animated TV shows and films, the character is portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the live action film Iron Man, which was a critical and box office success. Iron Man was ranked 12th on IGNs Top 100 Comic Book Heroes in 2011, in 1963, Lee had been toying with the idea of a businessman superhero. He wanted to create the quintessential capitalist, a character that would go against the spirit of the times, Lee said, I think I gave myself a dare. It was the height of the Cold War, the readers, the young readers, if there was one thing they hated, it was war, it was the military. So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree. He set out to make the new character a wealthy, glamorous ladies man, writer Gerry Conway said, Here you have this character, who on the outside is invulnerable, I mean, just cant be touched, but inside is a wounded figure. Stan made it very much an in-your-face wound, you know, his heart was broken, you know, but theres a metaphor going on there. And thats, I think, what made that character interesting, Lee based this playboys looks and personality on Howard Hughes, explaining, Howard Hughes was one of the most colorful men of our time. He was an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-billionaire, a ladies man, without being crazy, he was Howard Hughes, Lee said. While Lee intended to write the story himself, a minor deadline emergency eventually forced him to hand over the issue to Lieber. The art was split between Kirby and Heck and he designed the costume, Heck said of Kirby, because he was doing the cover. The covers were always done first, but I created the look of the characters, like Tony Stark and his secretary Pepper Potts. In a 1990 interview, when asked if he had a model for Tony Stark. Heck replied No, I would be thinking more along the lines of some characters I like, which would be the kind of characters that Alex Toth liked

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X-Men
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The X-Men is a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the characters first appeared in The X-Men #1 and they are among the most recognizable and successful intellectual properties of Marvel Comics, appearing in numerous books, television shows, films, and video games. The X-Men are mutants, a subspecies of humans who are born with superhuman abilities, the X-Men fight for peace and equality between normal humans and mutants in a world where antimutant bigotry is fierce and widespread. They are led by Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X and their archenemy is Magneto, a powerful mutant with the ability to generate and control magnetic fields. Professor X and Magneto have opposing views and philosophies regarding the relationship between mutants and humans, Professor X is the founder of Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters at a location commonly called the X-Mansion, which recruits mutants from around the world. Located in Westchester County, New York, the X-Mansion is the home and training site of the X-Men. The founding five members of the X-Men who appear in The X-Men #1 are Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, since then, dozens of mutants from various countries and diverse backgrounds have held membership as X-Men. In 2004, Stan Lee recalled, I couldnt have everybody bitten by a spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion. And I took the way out. I said to myself, Why dont I just say theyre mutants, in a 1987 interview, Jack Kirby said, The X-Men, I did the natural thing there. What would you do with mutants who were just plain boys and girls, so I gave them a teacher, Professor X. Of course, it was the thing to do, instead of disorienting or alienating people who were different from us, I made the X-Men part of the human race. Possibly, radiation, if it is beneficial, may create mutants that’ll save us instead of doing us harm. I felt that if we train the mutants our way, they’ll help us - and not only help us, and so, we could all live together. Lee devised the title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down the initial name, The Mutants. Within the Marvel Universe, the X-Men are widely regarded to have named after Professor Xavier himself. Xavier however claims that the name X-Men was never chosen as a tribute to himself, the name is also linked to the X-Gene, an unknown gene that causes the mutant evolution. The original explanation for the name, as provided by Xavier in The X-Men #1, is that mutants possess an extra power, one which ordinary humans do not

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North American Aerospace Defense Command
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Headquarters for NORAD and the NORAD/United States Northern Command center are located at Peterson Air Force Base in El Paso County, near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The nearby Cheyenne Mountain Complex has the Alternate Command Center, the NORAD commander and deputy commander are, respectively, a United States four-star general or equivalent and a Canadian three-star general or equivalent. CINCNORAD maintains the NORAD headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, with an accurate picture of any aerospace or maritime threat. S. Both the CONR and CANR regions are divided into eastern and western sectors, ANR is supported by both active duty and reserve units. Active duty forces are provided by 11 AF and the Canadian Armed Forces, both 11 AF and the CAF provide active duty personnel to the ROCC to maintain continuous surveillance of Alaskan airspace. Canadian NORAD Region Headquarters is at CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba and it was established on 22 April 1983. It is responsible for providing surveillance and control of Canadian airspace, the Royal Canadian Air Force provides alert assets to NORAD. CANR is divided into two sectors, which are designated as the Canada East Sector and Canada West Sector, both Sector Operations Control Centers are co-located at CFB North Bay Ontario. The routine operation of the SOCCs includes reporting track data, sensor status, in 1996 CANR was renamed 1 Canadian Air Division and moved to CFB Winnipeg. Canadian air defense forces assigned to NORAD include 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta and 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron at CFB Bagotville, All squadrons fly the McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft. Any aircraft that has not filed a flight plan may be directed to land and be inspected by RCMP, the Continental NORAD Region is the component of NORAD that provides airspace surveillance and control and directs air sovereignty activities for the Contiguous United States. CONR is the NORAD designation of the United States Air Force First Air Force/AFNORTH and its headquarters is located at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. The First Air Force became responsible for the USAF air defense mission on 30 September 1990, AFNORTH is the United States Air Force component of United States Northern Command. 1 AF/CONR-AFNORTH comprises State Air National Guard Fighter Wings assigned an air mission to 1 AF/CONR-AFNORTH. The primary weapons systems are the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft and it plans, conducts, controls, coordinates and ensures air sovereignty and provides for the unilateral defense of the United States. In its role as the CONUS NORAD Region,1 AF/CONR-AFNORTH also performs counter-drug surveillance operations, NORAD was recommended by the Joint Canadian-U. S. The 1958 international agreement designated the NORAD commander always be a United States officer, agreed the commands primary purpose would be…early warning and defense for SACs retaliatory forces. The RCAFs 1950 ground observer system, the Long Range Air Raid Warning System, was discontinued and on 31 January 1959, the United States Ground Observer Corps was deactivated

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Living Laser
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The Living Laser is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Don Heck, the made his first appearance in The Avengers #34. He would become an enemy of Iron Man and plays a key role in the end of the Iron Man. Arthur Parks started out as a scientist that invented small, wrist mounted lasers and used them for criminal pursuits. At one point he was a member of the Lethal Legion and at another point he was poised to take over the due to his possession of the Serpent Crown. At one point it appeared that the Living Laser exploded in space, the character first appeared in The Avengers #34 and was created by Stan Lee, Artie Simek and Don Heck. After an appearance in Captain America #105, the character was part of the first version of the Lethal Legion in Avengers #78-79, the Kree hero Mar-Vell encountered an android version of the Living Laser in Captain Marvel #35. The real Laser reappeared in a storyline in Avengers #151. After appearing as part of a pseudo Lethal Legion in Avengers #164-166, the Laser featured in the Acts of Vengeance storyline in Quasar #6 and reappeared in a new photon form in Iron Man #259-263 before returning in Quasar #30 and Iron Man #289. Further appearances included the limited series Super-Villain Team-Up, MODOKs 11 #1-5, the character returned during the limited series Secret Invasion #1-8, and made sporadic appearances in New Avengers. As the Living Laser, Parks becomes a mercenary and professional criminal and he develops an infatuation with the heroine the Wasp, and after he kidnaps her, he is forced to battle the superhero team the Avengers. He captured Hawkeye and Captain America by placing them in a ring of lasers before leaving, the Living Laser met the Avengers again when he tried to conquer a small South American country, who defeated and incarcerated the villain. As part of Batrocs Brigade he participated in a battle against Captain America, the Laser reappears as part of the first version of the Lethal Legion gathered by the Grim Reaper in a failed revenge plot against the Avengers. There is an encounter between Kree hero Mar-Vell and a version of the Laser. He is then employed - along with fellow villains Power Man and Whirlwind - by Count Nefaria, the effect, however, is temporary and their combined abilities are drained by Nefaria. The plan, however, is stopped by Iron Man and in battle with the hero, although the Laser begs for help, Iron Man has no choice but to hurl the character into the atmosphere where he detonates and apparently dies. Eventually revived, the Laser battles Iron Man once again, the Laser reappears in a new photon form, posing as the deceased Titanium Man while taunting Iron Man. The villain is defeated and banished to an alternate universe

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Erik Josten
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Erik Josten, otherwise known as Power Man, Smuggler, Goliath and Atlas, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been a prominent member of both the Masters of Evil and the Thunderbolts, Erik Josten was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A former AWOL Marine turned mercenary, he is employed by Baron Heinrich Zemo as head of his South American security/mercenary force, after Zemos death, Josten is convinced by the Enchantress to undergo the same ionic-ray treatment as Simon Williams, making Josten super-strong. Taking the name Power Man, he becomes the Enchantress partner and she used illusions to turn the city against the Avengers, though finally Captain America used a tape recording to prove the Avengers were innocent. He becomes a supervillain and partners with the Swordsman. Alongside the Swordsman, he becomes a pawn of the Red Skulls. He briefly serves as an agent of the Mandarin and he later fights the Avengers again as a member of the first Lethal Legion. Eventually, Josten meets Luke Cage, a hero who for a time has assumed the name Power Man. The two fight over the right to use the name, and Cage wins, Josten then joins Count Nefarias new Lethal Legion under the promise that Nefaria would greatly increase Jostens powers. This he does, but Nefaria later steals Jostens enhanced powers and his strength fading, Josten changes his costume and becomes a smuggler, taking the unimaginative yet appropriate name of the Smuggler. In his first and only appearance as Smuggler, he is defeated by Spider-Man, Spider-Man then assists Josten against the Maggia. Later, he gains the ability to grow to giant size from the criminal Doctor Karl Malus using a sample of Hank Pyms growth serum and he then takes on the name Goliath, a name used previously by superheroes and again changes his costume. He fights James Rhodes as Iron Man and the West Coast Avengers which defeat him, using his ability, he is sent by Doctor Doom to kill Spider-Man, but Goliath is defeated thanks to the heros newly acquired cosmic powers. Under the leadership of the Grim Reaper, Goliath again battles the West Coast Avengers alongside Man-Ape, Nekra and his escape attempt is foiled by Avengers. Josten joins a new version of the Masters of Evil. During his time with this group, Josten is one of the villains who invades and captures Avengers Mansion, Goliath later battles Spider-Man during the Acts of Vengeance. His attempted breakout at the Vault is foiled by the Avengers and he also battles Wonder Man in an attempt to usurp fame. Josten as Goliath later fights Giant-Man, Ant-Man, and then another Goliath and he then has a rematch with Wonder Man

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Whirlwind (comics)
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Whirlwind is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Tales To Astonish #50 and was created by Stan Lee, born in Kansas City, Missouri, David Cannon is a mutant that could move at great speeds. After discovering his powers at an age, he turns to a life of crime. This eventually brings Cannon, using his first alias the Human Top and pursuing his career as a thief, into conflict with Giant-Man. Defeated each time, Cannon then redesigns his costume and adopts the alias of Whirlwind, Whirlwind joined the supervillain group the second Masters of Evil, and participated in a plot to destroy the Avengers. He joined the third Masters of Evil, and participated in a Vermont battle against the Avengers, with Batroc and Porcupine, he went on a mission for the Red Skull. Cannon continues with the Charles Matthews identity, first with the intent of robbing van Dyne, in the role of Charles, he pines for Janet, making advances when Hank Pym is presumed to be dead during his run in Marvel Feature. Charles is later fired for trying to embezzle Janets money, and Hank finally discovers that Charles is Whirlwind later on in the series, Whirlwind is then employed by master villain Count Nefaria and joined the Lethal Legion. Nefaria temporarily amplifies the abilities of Whirlwind and super-powered team-mates Power Man, the effect, however, is temporary and their combined abilities are drained by Nefaria subsequently defeated by the Avengers. Whirlwind joined the third Masters of Evil in a plan to destroy the Avengers, Whirlwind later upgrades his costume when joining a new version of the Masters of Evil formed by Baron Zemo. Whirlwind partnered with the Trapster, obtained a new armor and weapons from the Tinkerer. He then partnered with the Tiger Shark, traveled to San Francisco to steal an experimental psycho-circuit, Whirlwind also shows signs of an obsession with the Wasp, as he forces prostitutes to dress in Wasps past costumes and then assaults them. Whirlwind and the Trapster end up fighting, due to a bounty placed on the former by the criminal mastermind Ricadonna. Trapster glues Whirlwind to the floor just at the start of his spin and he continues twirling, breaking many of his bones, including his spine. He makes a recovery and is forced to join Baron Zemos team of Thunderbolts. In Dark Reign, Zodiac, Cannon is shown as a mole for Zodiac, Whirlwind later attacks Hank blaming him for Janets death during the Secret Invasion and outraged by Pym taking the Wasp codename. He is defeated by the Avengers Academy student Striker, in a conversation between Striker and his mother, it is revealed that she hired Whirlwind to stage the attack to gain publicity for Striker. Whirlwind was recruited by the Mandarin and Zeke Stane into joining the other Iron Man villains in a plot to take down Iron Man, Whirlwind receives a new costume from Mandarin and Zeke Stane

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Heinrich Zemo
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Baron Zemo was a fictional supervillain that appeared in various American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was first seen in The Avengers #4, fury and His Howling Commandos #8, in the same month. Zemo was retroactively added into the history of Captain America upon the reintroduction to the Silver Age two issues prior. The character subsequently appears in The Avengers #7, #9-10, Tales of Suspense #60, dr. Heinrich Zemo was one of the top scientists in the Nazi Party. Zemo fought both Captain America and his allies the Howling Commandos during World War II, Heinrichs intelligence was only matched by his sadism, as he routinely tested his deadly weapons on innocent people, both prisoner and civilian inside the Third Reich. This ultimately came to a head, during an encounter with the Howling Commandos. The death-ray killed hundreds of innocent German civilians as a result, in an attempt to regain a level of anonymity, Zemo began wearing a reddish-pink hood over his face as he continued to build weapons for the Nazis. In order to ensure that the Nazis could not use Adhesive X against Allied troops, Captain America threw the shield at the vat to release the adhesive onto the ground. Zemo, however, was standing next to the vat containing the chemical. The adhesive quickly seeped inside and permanently attached the hood to Heinrichs flesh, Heinrich quickly recovered but having his hood permanently attached to his face drove the Nazi scientist insane. At some point, Zemo had fought with and killed Citizen V, when it became apparent that the Nazis would lose the war, Red Skull sent Zemo to London to steal an experimental airplane. By the time that Captain America learned of Zemos plot, it was too late, Zemo tied the two heroes to the experimental plane, which was now booby-trapped to explode, and launched to their deaths. Captain America fell from the plane as it exploded, and Bucky was apparently killed, Captain America landed in the Arctic Ocean and was frozen in ice for decades until recovered by the recently formed Avengers. Believing that he had killed his rival at long last, Zemo fled to South America as Hitler, after the mask was permanently bonded to his face, Zemo abandoned his long-suffering wife and toddler son, toward whom he had become emotionally and physically abusive. With an army of mercenaries loyal to him, Zemo enslaved a tribe of natives, after decades passed, Captain America was revived by the Avengers. This causes Zemo to renew his rivalry with the Captain, among his attempts included sending agents to take the place of participants of a hand-to-hand combat demonstration with Captain America in order to capture him. He tried to have Adhesive X spread over New York, but the Teen Brigade seized Zemos pilot, preventing him from speaking and they switched the adhesive with remover made by Paste-Pot Pete. Zemo used his sceptres hypno-ray on the Teen Brigade, placing them under his control and he then battled Captain America using combat skills he had gained, but Captain America began to beat him

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Avengers Mansion
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Avengers Mansion is a fictional building appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It has traditionally been the base of the Avengers, the enormous, city block-sized building is located at 890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City. Avengers Mansions address is 890 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, according to Stan Lee, who co-created the Avengers, There was a mansion called the Frick Museum that I used to walk past. I sort of modeled it after that, beautiful, big, so impressive building, right on Fifth Avenue. Lee later recounted, I cant tell you how many fan letters I would receive from kids saying, We came to New York and we were looking for the Stark mansion, so that made me feel good. I felt we had accomplished our objective and we had made it seem realistic. In real life,890 Fifth Avenue is 1 East 70th Street, the location of the Henry Clay Frick House, the building is, like Avengers Mansion, a city block-sized mansion. When occupied, the mansion was originally the Stark family manor, until their son, Tony Stark, inherited their fortune. He donated the mansion to the Avengers and had it financed through the charitable Maria Stark Foundation and it was primarily looked after by the Stark family butler, Edwin Jarvis, who not only took care of the mansion but also catered to the needs of the Avengers team. It served as a place to plan and strategize and a home for Avengers members when they needed it and it had three above-ground floors and three basement floors. The first three floors were open to the public and had twelve rooms to house Avengers who wished to reside in the mansion, a portion of the mansions third floor served as a hangar for the Avengers quinjets, their primary mode of transportation. The three floors below ground were restricted from the public and had modified rooms for the Avengers needs, the Fantastic Four took up temporary residence at Avengers Mansion after their headquarters was destroyed. The mansion has been destroyed twice, in the immediate aftermath, the Avengers would relocate to a floating platform called Hydro-Base, while the former Mansion site became known as Avengers Park, and was unused. Hydro-Base was later destroyed as well, the Mansion would be featured in a Damage Control story. The reconstruction firm was hired to refit and rebuild the mansion, unfortunately they did not manage to move it as easily and it fell into one of New Yorks rivers. Later, the Avengers built a new headquarters on the site of the Mansion and resided there until it was destroyed by the Gatherers, a team of alternate universe Avengers. Ute, a Watcher enslaved by the villain Proctor, brought an alternate reality version of the original Avengers Mansion to the site as a dying gift, Stark, using his considerable political and social influence, had the grounds declared a landmark by the city of New York. Since then, the Young Avengers have restored much of the statuary on the grounds of the mansion, even after its destruction, the mansion remains a hub of superhuman activity

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Grim Reaper (comics)
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Grim Reaper is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is also the brother of Wonder Man, the Grim Reaper first appeared in The Avengers #52 May, by Roy Thomas and John Buscema. He has been killed many times, depicted in Web of Spider-Man #46, Dark Reign, Lethal Legion #2, Chaos War, Avengers #3, and Uncanny Avengers #5 and #21, Eric Williams, the brother of Simon Williams, was born in Paterson, New Jersey. Eric was the sheep of his family. His mother Martha would tell him that he was born bad, Erics father was charged with disciplining him, but was abusive and uncaring. His father even preferred to watch TV lazily, while Eric was torturing the family cat, at the same time, their mother was loving and attentive to Simon, making Eric bitter and jealous. One day Eric was playing with chemicals in the garage, Simon felt guilty for not stopping Eric, and resolved to be responsible for Eric from there on. As they grew older, Simon grew studious while Eric was an athlete, Eric also became more rebellious, and tried to get Simon to join him in his petty thefts. Eventually Eric became a gambler, joined the Maggia and moved to Las Vegas, meanwhile, Simon took over the family business Williams Innovations. When Williams Innovations began to fail due to competition with Stark Industries. Simon embezzled money from the company to invest with Eric, but Simon was caught, Simon was freed from jail by Baron Zemo, induced by an offer of revenge on Iron Man and the Avengers to which Erics brother was transformed into Wonder Man. Learning of his brothers death, Eric was inflamed with guilt, through his Maggia contacts, he contacted the Tinkerer to provide him with his scythe weapon, which was further enhanced by Ultron with coma-inducing abilities. In his next appearance, the Grim Reaper confronted the Avengers with his original Lethal Legion composed of the Living Laser, Power Man, the Man-Ape, and he first sent the Man-Ape against them, who captured Black Panther. He allowed Black Panther to escape so that the Avengers could be contacted so they would be lured to the location of the Lethal Legion members and he captured nearly all of them, placing them in an hourglass filled with a deadly gas, and sent Power Man after Vision. Vision defeated Power Man, disguising himself as Power Man and Power Man as himself, the Lethal Legion was defeated when Grim Reaper found himself unable to strike down the Vision, having discovered that the syntheizoid possessed Simons brainwave patterns. He released Vision by breaking the hourglass, meaning the Avengers were freed and defeated the Lethal Legion, the Grim Reaper later allied with the Space Phantom and HYDRA. He planned to transfer the Visions mind to Wonder Mans body and he battled the Avengers again and was defeated. Behind the scenes, the Grim Reaper later had Wonder Man resurrected as a zombie by the Black Talon to attack the Avengers, Wonder Man was restored to true life as a result

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Ka-Zar (comics)
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Ka-Zar is the name of two jungle-dwelling fictional comic book characters published in the United States. The first Ka-Zar was named David Rand, and debuted in 1936, in 1939 he was adapted for his second iteration, a comic book character for Timely Comics, the 1930s and 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics. The second and more prominent Ka-Zar was named Kevin Plunder, and he is a heroic character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The second Ka-Zar started as a character, but reminiscent of both Tarzan and of writer-artist Joe Kuberts 1950s caveman character, Tor. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in The X-Men #10, he lives in the dinosaur-populated Savage Land, Kevin Plunder refers to himself as the Lord of the Savage Land, a phrase others have adopted, but this is not a formal title. Ka-Zar is Kevin Reginald, Lord Plunder, born in Castle Plunder, Kentish Town, London and he is the eldest son of Lord Robert Plunder, the English nobleman who discovered the Savage Land. Ka-Zar means Son of the Tiger in the language of the Man-Apes, Ka-Zar and Zabu are constant partners. Ka-Zar became a hunter, trapper, and fisherman, living off the wild land. In the Savage Land, some territories are populated by human or humanoid tribes, and while most of them are on friendly terms with Ka-Zar, some of them consider him an outlander. The original X-Men discovered the Savage Land, and Ka-Zar encountered them and he then encountered Daredevil for the first time, and battled his brother Parnival, who had become the supervillain called the Plunderer. He first battled Magnetos Savage Land Mutates alongside the X-Men and he then encountered the Hulk for the first time, and battled Umbu the Unliving. Spider-Mans memory was restored during the fight, with Ka-Zar subsequently apologizing for the mistake, Ka-Zar then battled Kraven the Hunter for the first time. Shortly after this encounter, Ka-Zar encounters Zaladane and Garokk for the first time, after the Savage Land became known to outsiders after the visit by the X-Men, many people began traveling to the territory. Ka-Zar has also become involved with female visitors, the first being S. H. I. E. L. D. He first battled A. I. M. and met the Man-Thing and he then met Spider-Man once again, and battled the extraterrestrial Gog. He next met the adventurer Shanna OHara and he battled Klaw, and visited other dimensions. He and his allies faded mysteriously from that dimension, then teamed with the X-Men to battle Zaladane. Ka-Zar, during a search for the lost Zabu, later discovered Pangaea, Ka-Zar and Shanna began to gradually fall in love

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Savage Land
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The Savage Land is a hidden fictional prehistoric land appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is a tropical preserve hidden in Antarctica, throughout time, it has served as a basis for many story arcs in Uncanny X-Men as well as in related books. The Savage Land first appeared in X-Men #10 and was created by Stan Lee, the Savage Land was created by the alien Nuwali at the behest of the other-dimensional, nigh-omnipotent aliens known as the Beyonders. The Beyonders sought to observe the process of evolution under relatively controlled conditions and had the Nuwali set up a number of game preserves on several planets, the aliens then stocked the area with all manner of Earth life over the following several millennia. They also brought over the Man-Apes, earlier hominid ancestors of Homo sapiens, the Beyonders eventually grew bored with the experiment, and the Nuwali stopped maintaining the Savage Land during the Late Pleistocene. Later on, a group of survivors from Atlantis sailed to Antarctica before the Great Cataclysm which sank Atlantis into the ocean. There, they discovered a cavern where they found an immense climate-controlling device and they named their location Pangea, which is Atlantean for paradise. They mastered genetic engineering, which had used on the Man-Apes when the Nuwali were still maintaining the Savage Land area. They used their genetic engineering techniques to transform other Savage Land inhabitants like the Golden People, the Lizard Men, the Reptile Men, the Tubantis, the Atlanteans then forced them to work for them until these animal people revolted. After a time of war, the people demanded civil rights. When the Great Cataclysm struck, the Atlantean empire fell and thanks to the machines, in more recent years, the Savage Land was rediscovered by Lord Robert Plunder, who took back a sample of the metal known as anti-metal or Antarctic vibranium with him. This mysterious metal had the ability to produce vibrations which would liquefy all other metals, fleeing from those who sought to steal this discovery, Plunder took his eldest son Kevin with him for a second trip into the Savage Land. Unfortunately, the elder Plunder was killed by a tribe of Man-Apes. Kevin survived, thanks to the intervention of the orphaned sabretooth tiger later known as Zabu. He grew to adulthood in the Savage Land, becoming the adventurer known as Ka-Zar, Ka-Zar had many team-ups with the X-Men, who first revealed the Savage Lands existence, Spider-Man, and many other superheroes who had visited the Savage Land. He later met and married Shanna the She-Devil, the Savage Lands existence is common knowledge throughout the world. At one time, there were press junkets, sponsored by the oil company Roxxon, daily Bugle photographer Peter Parker was sent and helped uncover Roxxons unethical and dangerous manipulation of the local resources. At one point, Spider-Man teamed up with Ka-Zar to save Gwen Stacy from Kraven the Hunter and Gog at the time when her class, many villains have threatened the Savage Land, including Sauron, Garokk, Magneto, and Thanos

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Wonder Man
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Wonder Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby, in 2012, Wonder Man was ranked 38th in IGNs list of The Top 50 Avengers. Wonder Man debuted in the superhero-team title The Avengers #9, four years later, Avengers #58 revisited the events of #9, explaining that the Avengers had electronically saved Wonder Mans mind in a computer. Wonder Man was not seen again until The Avengers #102, where he made a appearance in a comatose state. Wonder Mans body was revived by the villain Kang in The Avengers #131-132, and then again by the Black Talon in The Avengers #152, after this last encounter, Wonder Man finally recovered his faculties and joined the Avengers in a full-time capacity in Avengers #160. Marvel Comics then-publisher Stan Lee said in 1978, You know, years ago we brought out Wonder Man, and sued us because they had Wonder Woman, I said okay, Ill discontinue Wonder Man. And all of a sudden theyve got Power Girl, Wonder Man later appeared as a founding member of the spin-off West Coast Avengers first in a four-issue miniseries, and continuing as one of the primary characters in the series 102-issue run. After that team disbanded, he joined the team Force Works in a series that debuted with a July 1994 cover-date, after that team splintered, Wonder Man rejoined the Avengers in The Avengers vol. After the collapse of the team in The Avengers #503, Wonder Man joined a new group called the Mighty Avengers, co-starred in that teams series. Wonder Man starred in a graphic novel in 1986. He then starred in a 29-issue series, Wonder Man, which was followed in by the three-issue miniseries Avengers Two, Wonder Man and the Beast. In 2007, he starred in the five-issue miniseries Wonder Man, Wonder Man appeared sporadically throughout the 2010-2013 Avengers series, but played an important role in the End Times storyline in issue #31 through its final issue #34. Comic book writer Rick Remender revealed in an interview that Wonder Man would be a member of the Uncanny Avengers, Simon Williams is the son of rich industrialist Sanford Williams, owner of Williams Innovations. Simon inherits the munitions factory after his fathers death, but the companys profits fall due to its biggest competitor Tony Stark, on the advice of his brother Eric, Simon tries to embezzle funds from his company but is caught and incarcerated. Simon blames Stark for this and accepts the proposition of master villain Baron Heinrich Zemo after the Enchantress pays his bail, the desperate Simon Williams agrees and is transformed into an ion-powered being with superhuman powers. His powers are tested, and he is shown to have superhuman strength and durability. Called Wonder Man by Zemo, he is sent to meet and join the Avengers. Zemo ensures Wonder Mans loyalty by advising him that as a result of the treatment his body now requires periodic doses of a serum to survive—a serum that only Zemo can provide, the Avengers are lured into a trap and captured

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Thunderbolts (comics)
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The Thunderbolts are a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team consists mostly of reformed supervillains, the Thunderbolts first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #449 and were created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley. However the final page of the first issue of their comic book revealed that the Thunderbolts were the Masters of Evil in disguise, themes of redemption and the nature of heroism are often featured in Thunderbolts comics. In subsequent storylines, the group rejects their leader Baron Helmut Zemo and attempts to become heroes in their own right, the book has also garnered critical praise for its use of secondary characters from other Marvel Comics and its use of continuity-themed storytelling. The Thunderbolts was a concept created for Marvel Comics by Kurt Busiek. Most of the used in the final concept were reimagined versions of existing Marvel characters, with additional original characters for the series developed by Busiek. The pair also created the new identities for the Masters of Evil. Busiek recalled, The actual origin of Thunderbolts came when I used to live in New Jersey, to keep myself awake, Id give myself books to write, and work out about two to three years of continuity. One trip, I assigned myself Avengers, and came up with the plan that the Masters of Evil would ultimately conquer them by posing as new heroes, at the time, I thought it was a neat idea, and filed it away. The Thunderbolts first appeared as a team in The Incredible Hulk #449, written by Peter David, originally intended to be a similar team known as the Echelon, the synchronization of the plans led to the Thunderbolts being used instead as a teaser for their own series. No mention was made of the connection between the Thunderbolts and the Masters of Evil in this appearance, save perhaps for the Hulk almost recognizing Meteorites voice, the team also appeared in a one-shot called Tales of the Marvel Universe. The twist would not be revealed until the first issue of their own series, soon after the publication of The Incredible Hulk #449, the teams own series premiered. The first issue, cover dated April 1997, was played largely as a superhero story. Marvel managed to keep the secret of the Thunderbolts true villainous identities tightly under wraps before the book launched. When word got out, the first issue sold out so quickly that Marvel not only offered a second printing, fabian Nicieza replaced Busiek in issue #34. Patrick Zircher, after a couple of fill-ins, replaced Bagley in issue #51, however, the new direction for the series—an underground fighting circuit that employed predominantly newly created super-villain characters—was a commercial failure and canceled after six issues. In 2004, Marvel Comics launched a series titled Avengers/Thunderbolts. The limited series ran for the number of issues as the reformatted Thunderbolts arc

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Electro (Marvel Comics)
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Electro is the name of two fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Maxwell Dillon, the first Electro, is an enemy of Spider-Man who gained the ability to control electricity after being struck by lightning while working on a power line. Electro has since become one of Spider-Mans most enduring foes, becoming part of the collective rogue team known as the Sinister Six, the second Electro is Francine Frye. In 2009, he was ranked as IGNs 87th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time, the character has been depicted in numerous Spider-Man cartoons and video games and made his cinematic debut in 2014s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, portrayed by actor Jamie Foxx. The Maxwell Dillon version of Electro was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, while Maxwell Dillon, an electrical engineer and lineman, was repairing a power line, a freak lightning accident caused a mutagenic change that transformed him into a living electrical capacitor. His powers were initially weak, so he spent some time stealing electrical equipment from Stark Industries to charge himself. During this time, he was approached by Magneto, who considered him a potential recruit for his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, claiming that Dillons power rivaled his own, but Dillon refused. The following day, Dillon was confronted by a thug from whom he had been borrowing money to pay for the machinery he had needed. When the thug drew a gun on him because he had not paid back the money yet, soon taking the name Electro, he turned to a life of a professional criminal, his first victim being J. Jonah Jameson. Electro broke into the Daily Bugle Building and stole from Jamesons safe right in front of him, Jameson accused Spider-Man of being an alternate identity of Electro, prompting Spider-Man to prove the publisher wrong. During their first ever confrontation, Spider-Man was nearly killed after touching the electrically charged villain, Spider-Man eventually used a fire hose to short-circuit Electro while wearing rubber gloves to protect himself. Electro next confronted Daredevil for the first time trying to break into the Baxter Building. Electro lost his power when the power was cut off by Spider-Man, Spider-Man got a card from him that led him to fight Kraven the Hunter. He later recruited the second Emissaries of Evil in a plot of revenge against Daredevil for previous defeats and this group consisted of Gladiator, Stilt-Man, Leap-Frog, and the Matador. Electro was later hired by J. Jonah Jameson to defeat Spider-Man on national television and he encountered Daredevil again in San Francisco, at which time he temporarily donned a modified costume. He then took control of a Protarian android seeking the destruction of Omega, Electro then teamed with Blizzard against Spider-Man and Daredevil. Electro then attempted to aid a band of criminals escaping the Defenders, Electro later joined the Frightful Four. As part of the Frightful Four, he used Spider-Man as bait to trap the Fantastic Four, subsequently, he battled the Falcon but was defeated, partly because he did not consider the Falcon to be a serious threat

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Siege (comics)
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Siege is an American comic book published by Marvel Comics from January 2010 to May 2010. It deals with the culmination of the Dark Reign story line, the story depicts Loki manipulating Osborn into leading an all-out assault on Asgard, at the time located within the United States. Captain America and his own Avengers lead a rebellion against Osborn, the events in Siege led to Marvel Comics introducing the subsequent story-line Heroic Age. Siege ran as an eponymous four-issue mini-series, with connected one-shots and associated mini-series, Marvel announced in early 2010 that the companys Siege storyline would be followed by the Heroic Age story-line. This was first hinted at in the story by Athena to Amadeus Cho, the end of aftermath was described as what would be the start of a new Heroic Age in the Marvel Universe. From June 2010 Marvel published Avengers Prime, Siege Aftermath and this five-part series focused on Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America and bridged the gap between Siege and Heroic Age. Though not badged as a series, a limited series starting in May 2010 examined the fall of Norman Osborn. The series was titled Amazing Spider-Man Presents, American Son, a rift develops between Doom and Osborn, creating mayhem that appears to dissolve the group. Later, under his guise of respectability, Osborn attempts in vain to secure permission from the President of the United States to invade Asgard claiming it poses a security threat. Osborns aide-de-camp, Victoria Hand suggests unsuccessfully that Osborn seek therapy for his instability, shortly afterward, the President realizes that Osborn is unstable and orders Hand to produce him. He then claims that she committed suicide, concurrently, Loki prepares Asgard for invasion through selective assassination and by neutralizing Heimdall, the citys guardian. The siege begins with the Sentry attacking Asgard, followed by an aerial assault led by Osborn in his Iron Patriot armor. The Asgardian Thunder-God Thor, who has been banished from Asgard for some time, is stunned, at the same time, the Avengers resistance led by Tigra, Justice, and Gauntlet launch their own attack on Camp H. A. M. M. E. R. Osborns people offer Todd Keller, a talk show host, exclusive official coverage of the siege. Meanwhile, longtime investigative journalist Ben Urich, editor of the New York City newspaper The Front Line, volstagg, whom they meet in a chance encounter along the way, accompanies them and gives the reporters his own perspective. As the battle in Asgard intensifies, the Olympian warrior Ares, Osborn has the Sentry kill Ares instead. Osborn declares martial law just as Rogers and a contingent of Avengers arrives, volstagg, with the aid of a local sheriff who is suspicions of Osborn, speaks to the public from a webcam video. This leads to the beginning of public disenchantment with the increasingly volatile Osborn, the siege continues with the super-villain Scourge using the enchanted spear of Asgards ruler, Odin, to sever the left limbs of the superhero U. S. Agent

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Hood (comics)
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Hood is a fictional character, a supervillain, and a crime boss appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Hood next appeared in the 2006 miniseries Beyond, a miniseries set in outer space, which had the character shift towards a slightly more anti-heroic position, as opposed to a villainous one. Brian Michael Bendis stated in a 2007 Newsarama interview that within the pages of New Avengers, Bendis says that. like the Sentry and Echo—the Hood is one of these excellent brand new creations that no one else was touching, and thats how they fall by the wayside. Although the New Avengers defeated the Hoods new gang of supercriminals, he broke them out, only to be defeated once more. Following 2008s Secret Invasion, The Hood has a prominent role, as part of the Cabal. Robbins father works closely with the Kingpin and is around while Parker is growing up, as a child, he witnesses a battle between Daredevil and Electro, which has a profound effect on Robbins young adulthood. Parkers father dies, and his mother enters a near-vegetative state and is hospitalized. Parker visits his mother, telling her stories of jobs hes acquired and how hes making himself into a better person, Parkers well-meaning nature is juxtaposed with his philandering and thieving ways, such as taking care of his pregnant girlfriend Sara, while visiting a prostitute on the side. Parkers cousin and best friend John King is a recovering alcoholic, inside the abandoned warehouse, the two encounter an abandoned mystic ritual which results in an encounter with a Nisanti demon. Robbins shoots and apparently kills the demon, and steals its hood, disposing of the gun in a dumpster, Robbins encounters a gang who wants the boots he had stolen off a HYDRA agent before going to the warehouse. Throwing the boots at the gang, he flees and puts on the demons boots, escaping, he shares his discovery with King and tries on the cloak, which grants him the ability to become invisible while holding his breath. He uses his new powers to commit petty robberies, and then John asks him for help in stealing a shipment of blood diamonds, the diamonds are the responsibility of Dennis Golembuski who hires Constrictor, Jack OLantern, Shocker, and Madame Rapier to ensure the delivery. However, Robbins confronts the group and steals half the shipment, meeting up with King, the two are confronted by two police officers. Robbins shoots one officer and King knocks the other out with a blow to the back of the head, the officer shot by Robbins ends up in a coma, and later dies. King stays behind to take the blame while Robbins flees, as a result of this incident, Robbins is dubbed the Hood by the authorities and a bounty is placed upon his head for his arrest. Pursued by the Golem, the cops, and two FBI agents, the Hood hatches a plan to get King out of prison and he tries to pawn the diamonds for Kings lawyer fee, but runs into the Shocker. After defeating him, he finds out about Golem and Rapier, Golem agrees and sends Rapier with the Hood under instructions to kill Parker after the deal is made. Knowing it is a setup, the Hood purchases a similar cloak, Robbins sets up events so Rapier confronts the FBI, wearing the fake cloak, and she is killed

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Loki (comics)
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Loki is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the brother and often the enemy of Thor. He is based on the being of the name from Norse mythology. The character first appeared historically in Venus No.6 and in modern-day in Journey into Mystery No.85, the character was created by writer Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and penciller Jack Kirby. Though normally portrayed as a supervillain, he is depicted as an antihero. Loki has appeared in several ongoing series, limited series and alternate reality series and he appeared in the new issues of Young Avengers in 2013. He began appearing in his solo series Loki, Agent of Asgard in 2014, the character has also appeared in associated Marvel merchandise including animated television series, clothing, toys, video games, and movies. In 2009, Loki was ranked as IGNs 8th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time, Loki made his first Marvel Comics appearance in Timely Comics publication Venus No. 6, where Loki was depicted as a member of the Olympian gods exiled to the Underworld and he convinced Jupiter to let him into Earth as Venus was allowed onto it, planning to spread hate. Venus pledged herself to him to stop his plans, but Jupiter saw her act and freed her from the pledge. He made his first official Marvel appearance in Journey into Mystery No,85, where Loki was reintroduced as Thors sworn enemy. The modern age Loki was introduced by brothers and co-writers Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, as one of Thors arch-nemeses, Loki has frequently made appearances in Thor-related titles like Journey into Mystery and Thor, as well as other Marvel Universe titles such as The Avengers and X-Men. As well as appearances in the Spider-Man and Defenders comic series. He was the character in two four-issue miniseries Loki in 2004 and 2010. Loki played a key role in the 2010s company-wide Siege storyline, starting with issue No.622 the ongoing series Thor reverted to the original title Journey into Mystery and shifted focus to Loki. Under the pen of Kieron Gillen, Loki is resurrected but exists in a childs body and he remained the main character from 2011-2012, his final issue as lead being No.645. Gillen, joined by penciller Jamie McKelvie, continued his Loki storyline by introducing Loki, still as Kid Loki, as a character in the second Young Avengers. 11, he manipulated Wiccan into restoring him to a teenaged form, a Loki solo series called Loki, Agent of Asgard was announced for 2014

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Moon Knight
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Moon Knight is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin, the character first appeared in Werewolf by Night #32, the character proved popular with readers and was granted a solo spot in Marvel Spotlight #28–29, written by Doug Moench with art by Don Perlin. The story, along with the Bill Mantlo-penned Spectacular Spider-Man #22 and #23, recast Moon Knight as a hero and his villainous first appearance, Moon Knight then gained a black and white backup strip in Hulk. Magazine #11–15, #17–18, and #20, which saw the character first drawn with artist Bill Sienkiewicz on issues #13-15, 17-18, Moon Knight received his first ongoing series in 1980, with Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz as its main creative team. Sienkiewicz left the series after issue #30, though continued to contribute covers until the final issue, Moon Knight appeared in Marvel Fanfare for two issues and in the pages of West Coast Avengers, with the character written by Steven Englehart. With the arrival of John Byrne onto the title, Moon Knight was written out and after a guest spot in Punisher Annual #2, the series was originally written by Chuck Dixon, who left the title after issue #24. Dixon left the book with several storylines unresolved and the plotline with the sidekick was resolved in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man #353–358, written by Al Milgrom. The series was canceled with #60, with four of the last six issues drawn by Stephen Platt, two one-shots, Marc Spector, Moon Knight Special Edition #1 and Moon Knight, Divided We Fall, were published during the run of the title. In 1998, writer Doug Moench, artist Tommy Edwards, in 1999, Moench and artist Mark Texeira worked together on another four-part series called High Strangeness which was nominated for the Comics Buyers Guide Fan Award for Favorite Limited Series. The title of the story was given as High Strangers on the covers of the limited series. The correct title of the story, High Strangeness, appeared on the page of each issue. A Moon Knight ongoing series was launched in April 2006, written by Charlie Huston with art by David Finch, Peter Milligan also wrote a 2008 seasonal one-shot titled Moon Knight, Silent Knight with artist Laurence Campbell. The 2006 series ended with #30, and only one Annual in the series was printed in 2008 and that series was followed by a ten-issue series titled Vengeance of the Moon Knight, beginning in September 2009, written by Gregg Hurwitz and drawn by Jerome Opena. After Vengeance of the Moon Knight was canceled, Moon Knight was placed in the team book Secret Avengers and it was announced at the New York Comic Con that 2011 would see the launch of a new Moon Knight series by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. The series, which saw Moon Knight replace his multiple personalities with heroes such as Spider-Man, Captain America, in March 2014, Marvel launched a new ongoing series as part of the Marvel NOW. The series was canceled and relaunched as part of the All-New. The new series, written by Jeff Lemire and artist Greg Smallwood, debuted in April 2016 and saw Marc Spector waking up in a mental institution, born in Chicago, Illinois, Marc Spector is an American rabbis wayward son. As an adult, Spector has been a boxer, a U. S. Marine

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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital

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Echo (Marvel Comics)
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Echo, also known as Ronin, is a fictional character, a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as a character of Daredevil. She makes her first appearance in Daredevil Vol.2, #9 and she is a Native American and one of the very few deaf comic characters. When she dons her Echo guise, she is recognizable by a white hand print which covers most of her face. Fan speculation was high, with the most common guess that Ronin was Daredevil, however, Avengers, The Ultimate Guide, a DK Press book, revealed Ronin to be Echo weeks before the slightly delayed release of New Avengers #13, where Ronins true identity was belatedly revealed. While Echo was killed off in 2012 during the Moon Knight series, while still a young girl, Maya Lopezs father, was killed by the Kingpin. As Crazy Horse dies, he leaves a bloody handprint on Mayas face and his last dying wish is that his partner in crime, the Kingpin, raise Maya well, a wish the Kingpin honors, caring for her as his own. Believed to be disabled, Maya is sent to an expensive school for people with learning disabilities. There, she manages to replicate a song on the piano. She is subsequently sent to another school for prodigies. She would soon become a gifted woman, one day, upon visiting her fathers grave with Fisk, Maya asks how he died. Fisk tells her that Daredevil killed him, Maya is sent by the Kingpin to Matt Murdock to prove Matts weakness. He tells her that Matt believes he is a bad person, as Maya believes him, it would not appear to be a lie when she tells Matt. Matt Murdock and Maya soon fall in love and she later takes on the guise of Echo to hunt down Daredevil. On her face she paints a white handprint, similar to the bloody handprint left by her dying father, having watched videos of Bullseye and Daredevil fighting, she proves more than a match for Daredevil. Maya easily takes him down and nearly kills him, refusing only when she finds out Matt and Daredevil are one, Matt manages to correct the Kingpins lies. In revenge, Maya confronts Fisk and shoots him in the face, blinding him, after realizing the horror of her actions and the lies she has grown up with, Maya flees the United States to do some soul-searching. When she comes back, she tries reuniting with Matt Murdock, only to find out he is now with a woman named Milla Donovan

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Daken
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Akihiro, codename Daken is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Daken is the mutant son of Wolverine and his deceased wife Itsu and he possesses superhuman abilities similar to his father, and was a member of the Dark Avengers under the name Wolverine until the conclusion of the 2010 storyline, Siege. Daken was ranked sixth in Comics Alliances 50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics list and is recognized for his sex appeal. Daken first appeared in Wolverine Origins #10, created by writer Daniel Way and he becomes a member of the Dark Avengers, as part of the 2008–2009 Dark Reign storyline, taking the role of his father. The character also becomes the lead in the Wolverine series, which becomes Dark Wolverine in issue #75, brian Bendis, writer of Dark Avengers has said, Daken is one of the best things to come out of Origins, and what better way to piss off his father. Hes an iconic and legacy character attached to a number of things in the Marvel Universe. So we can really roll up our sleeves and see what weve got there, as part of the team he is also a part of the story Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men, Utopia. He appeared as a character in the Dark Avengers series from issue #1 through issue #16. Dark Wolverine continued after the end of Dark Reign and finished with issue #90 with the prelude for the Empire storyline, writer Rob Williams took over the series in 2011, starting with issue #9.1. In November 2011, it was announced that Daken, Dark Wolverine would be coming to a close, the series ended with issue #23. Daken has been portrayed as bisexual, having engaged in sexual situations with both men and women. Daken kissed a man in Wolverine, Origins #11, however the encounter also served to further toy with a woman he had been seeing and later. In Dark Wolverine #75 it is vaguely suggested Daken has had an encounter with a male employee of Norman Osborn. Later in the issue, Daken makes a pass at Mac Gargan however the context is ambiguous. In the same issue, Daken uses his pheromones to engage a female H. A. M. M. E. R. In Dark Avengers #7, Daken humorously states how he. always did like playing for teams, a double entendre referencing bisexuality and his membership in both the Dark Avengers and Dark X-Men. In Dark Wolverine #76, Daken uses his pheromones in order to manipulate the Thing, goading him with homoerotic remarks, during the Siege of Asgard, Daken also made a flirtatious pass at Bullseye dressed as Hawkeye, and kisses him on-panel. In Dark Reign, Young Avengers #5, Daken attempts to uses his pheromones during a fight against Hulkling, Daken has also been shown on numerous occasions engaging in heterosexual behavior and sleeping with female characters

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Assassination
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Assassination is the murder of a prominent person, often a political leader or ruler, usually for political reasons or payment. The word assassin is believed to derive from the word Hashshashin. It referred to a group of Nizari Shia Persians who worked against various Arab, founded by the Persian Hassan-i Sabbah, the Assassins were active in the fortress of Alamut in Iran from the 8th to the 14th centuries, and also controlled the castle of Masyaf in Syria. The group killed members of the Persian, Abbasid, Seljuq, the word for murder in many Romance languages is derived from this same root word. Assassination is one of the oldest tools of power politics and it dates back at least as far as recorded history. The Old Testament story of Judith illustrates how a woman frees the Israelites by tricking and assassinating Holofernes, a warlord of the rival Assyrians, with whom the Israelites were at war. King Joash of Judah was recorded as being assassinated by his own servants, Joab assassinated Absalom, King Davids son, chanakya wrote about assassinations in detail in his political treatise Arthashastra. His student Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Maurya Empire, later made use of assassinations against some of his enemies, other famous victims are Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul Julius Caesar. Emperors of Rome often met their end in this way, as did many of the Muslim Shia Imams hundreds of years later, the practice was also well known in ancient China, as in Jing Kes failed assassination of Qin king Ying Zheng in 227 BC. Whilst many assassination were performed by an individual or a small group, the earliest were the sicarii in 6 A. D. who predated the Middle Eastern assassins and Japanese ninjas by centuries. In the Middle Ages, regicide was rare in Western Europe, blinding and strangling in the bathtub were the most commonly used procedures. With the Renaissance, tyrannicide—or assassination for personal or political reasons—became more common again in Western Europe and this account is, however, contentious among historians, it being most commonly asserted that he died of natural causes. The myth of the Curse of King Zvonimir is based on the legend of his assassination, in 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem, was killed by an assassin. The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland, William the Silent of the Netherlands, in Russia alone, two emperors, Paul I and his grandson Alexander II, were assassinated within 80 years. In the United Kingdom, only one Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has ever been assassinated—Spencer Perceval on May 11,1812. In the United States, within 100 years, four presidents—Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, there have been at least 20 known attempts on U. S. presidents lives. Huey Long, a Senator, was assassinated in September of 1935, the Polish Home Army conducted a regular campaign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland. Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, indias Father of the Nation, Mohandas K. Gandhi, was shot to death on January 30,1948, by Nathuram Godse

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Nightmare (Marvel Comics)
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Nightmare is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted most commonly as one of Doctor Strange, Nightmare first appeared in Strange Tales #110 and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. He is the ruler of a Dream Dimension, where tormented humans are brought during their sleep. He roams this realm on his demonic black horned horse named Dreamstalker and he appears as a chalk-white man with wild green hair, a green bodysuit, and a ragged cape. He was the first foe met by Doctor Strange, when a man who was having troubled dreams went to Strange for help, later Nightmare imprisons several humans in his dimension, but Strange frees them. When Doctor Strange forgot to recite a spell before he slept, Nightmare started tormenting him, Nightmare is a demon from the dimension Everinnye, like his cousin, the Dweller-in-Darkness. Nightmare is dependent on the human races need to dream, without this ability, Nightmare would cease to exist, but humanity would go insane. At one point Strange and Nightmare had to join forces to prevent that from happening, Nightmare has run afoul of Spider-Man, Captain America, Ghost Rider, Dazzler, Wolverine, the Hulk, and Squirrel Girl on different occasions. Their plans were undone when DSpayre tricks him into competing with the Dweller-in-Darkness over who could frighten humanity more, Nightmare is the father of the Dreamqueen, a similar being who rules her own dream dimension. She was conceived when Nightmare raped a succubus named Zhilla Char, Nightmares realm is not part of The Mindscape, but the Sleepwalkers are aware of him and consider him an enemy. Because Sleepwalkers do not have to sleep, Nightmare has never been able to affect or dominate them and he sought to do this through the hero Sleepwalker, who had been connected into the brain of the human Rick Sheridan. Nightmare sent Sleepwalker back to his own realm, with a monitor to assure the hero Rick was not being tormented, Rick was being tormented, with the intent of driving Sleepwalker mad and thus giving Nightmare access to the minds of Sleepwalkers people. The hero was not fooled and sacrificed his home in order to stop Nightmare. Later, Nightmare was able to access human minds through the concept of the American dream, many people who were deeply patriotic or had achieved a degree of success through hard work were going on violent rampages. Nightmare was soon stopped by the forces of Captain America, Sharon Carter. His second, more benevolent, daughter Daydream is also introduced in this storyarc, when Hercules and the God Squad needs to make their way to the Skrull gods realm during the Secret Invasion storyline, they require a map of the Dreamtime, and barter with Nightmare for it. Nightmare agrees, in exchange for access to the fears of the five gods, however, Hercules and the others escape his realm, having stolen the map via trickery as Mikaboshi had created a shadow duplicate of himself to fool Nightmare. Nightmare summons up an army of monsters to attack them, Nightmare later attempts to revenge himself on Hercules by manipulating the supervillain Arcade into trapping Hercules and Deadpool in a labyrinth they constructed

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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is an ongoing American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The solo series initially debuted in January 2015 and ran for 8 issues, the initial and reboot series are written by Ryan North with art by Erica Henderson, based on the Squirrel Girl character created by Will Murray and Steve Ditko. Critics have praised its comedy as well as the portrayal of Squirrel Girl. Marvel registered a trademark for Squirrel Girl in July 2014, leading to speculation that the character would appear in a film or television series. In October, Entertainment Weekly revealed that Squirrel Girl would star in a series by writer Ryan North. Entertainment Weekly called it a bold move for Marvel, publishing a female-centric comic that’s intended to appeal equally to canon-heads. Starting in May 2015, the Secret Wars crossover storyline affected a number of Marvel comics, Marvel announced in June 2015 that, after Secret Wars was complete, they would reboot their entire line as part of a All-New, All-Different Marvel rebranding. Though The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl was not part of the Secret Wars storyline, Marvel later named this team the Avengers Idea Mechanics. Doreen Green, known as Squirrel Girl, is a superhero with the proportional strength and speed of a squirrel, as well as the ability to speak with squirrels, like her sidekick. While originally introduced as a mutant, she was later retconned to be medically and legally distinct from being a mutant and she can also command an army of squirrels, which she typically uses to overwhelm her foes. As The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl begins, Squirrel Girl has left her home in the Avengers mansion to major in science at Empire State University. While moving in to her dormitory, she fights the villain Kraven the Hunter, later issues had Squirrel Girl facing Whiplash and Galactus. A romantic interest named Tomas is introduced, who turns out to also be a hero named Chipmunk Hunk. During a battle with Ratatoskr, Squirrel Girl teams up with Thor, Odinson, Nancy and Doreen move off campus into an apartment. During a lunch with her mom, Brain Drain attacks them and they then dress him in human clothes and enroll him in Computer Science classes to allow him to upgrade his old WWII tech. The next morning Doreen is teleported into the 60s, nobody remembers Doreen except for Nancy. She finds a message from the past, so Nancy begins exploring ways to go into the past. Nancy tricks Doom to travel into the past and rescue Squirrel Girl, in the past, Doreen found several other ECU students also stuck in the past and creates a support group

Count Nefarious
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Toonstruck is an adventure game released in 1996. The game features hand-drawn imagery and animated characters, but the protagonist Drew Blanc is represented as a video-captured live-action character interacting with the world around him. Toonstruck is an adventure game where the player controls Christopher Lloyds digitized likeness. The game uses

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Toonstruck European Cover

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The iconic barn, before it is struck by the Malevolator's beam. Drew can be seen talking to the Carecrow as Flux is walking away

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One of the scenes from the unreleased sequel

Avengers (comics)
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The Avengers are a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team made its debut in The Avengers #1, created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, labeled Earths Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers originally consisted of Hank Pym, the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, and the Wasp. The ori

Ernie Chan
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Chan also had a long tenure on Batman and Detective Comics. Other than his work on Batman, Chan primarily focused on characters, staying mostly in the genres of horror, war. Ernie Chan was born Ernie Chua due to what he called an error on my birth certificate that I had to use until I had a chance to change it to Chan when I got my citizenship in 7

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Chan in May 2009.

Marvel Comics
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Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc. formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwides parent company, Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the ea

Stan Lee
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Stan Lee is an American comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. In addition, he challenged the comics industrys censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house

Don Heck
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He called me up and asked me to join. Heck also did freelance assignments for Quality Comics, Hillman Comics, pictorial in 1955, he drew the one-shot Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion, a TV tie-in comic based on the 1955-57 syndicated, live-action kids show of that name. Through his old Harvey Comics colleague Pete Morisi, Heck in 1954 met Marv

Maggia (comics)
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The Maggia is a fictional international crime syndicate appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The organization exists in Marvels main shared universe, known as Earth-616 and its structure is somewhat similar to the Mafia, but the Maggia differs in that it frequently hires supervillains and mad scientists to work for them. Th

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Attribution unknown, artist Jack Kirby

Legion of the Unliving
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The Legion of the Unliving are five groups of fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The five versions first appear in Avengers #131, Avengers Annual #16, Avengers West Coast #61, Avengers #353 and Avengers vol. The groups were created by Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema, Tom DeFalco and various artists, R

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The first Legion of the Unliving appears on the cover of Avengers #131 (Jan. 1975). Art by Sal Buscema.

Lethal Legion
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The Lethal Legion is the name of six teams of fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first version of the Lethal Legion appeared in The Avengers #78, the second version of the Lethal Legion appeared in Avengers #164 The third version in West Coast Avengers vol. The fourth version appeared in Marvel Ag

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The original Lethal Legion on the cover of Avengers #79 (Aug. 1970) Art by John Buscema.

Ani-Men
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The Ani-Men is the name of several fictional teams appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Four of them are villain groups, while one of them was introduced as a team of serving the High Evolutionary. The first Ani-Men debuted in Daredevil #10 and were created by Wally Wood, the second Ani-Men debuted in Daredevil #157 and wer

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The cover to X-Men #95, featuring the original Ani-Men fighting the X-Men. Art by Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum.

Fiction
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Fiction is the classification for any story or similar work derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact. Fiction does not refer to a mode or genre, unless used in its narrowest sense to mean a literary narrative. Instead, the context of fiction is generally open to interpretation, characters and events within a fi

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An illustration from Lewis Carroll 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, depicting the fictional protagonist, Alice, playing a fantastical game of croquet.

Supervillain
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A supervillain is a variant of the villainous stock character archetype commonly found in American comic books, sometimes possessing superhuman abilities. A supervillain is the antithesis of a superhero, Supervillains are often used as foils to present a daunting challenge to a superhero. Other traits may include megalomania and possession of consi

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Supervillains from the 1966 film Batman, a film adaptation of the comic books based on Batman and the 1960s television show of the same name.

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New York Comic Con 2014 - A fan dressed as General Zod

American comic book
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An American comic book is a thin periodical, typically 32-pages, containing primarily comics content. While the form originated in 1933, American comic books first gained popularity after the 1938 publication of Action Comics and this was followed by a superhero boom that lasted until the end of World War II. After the war, while superheroes were m

Madame Masque
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Madame Masque is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Over the years, Madame Masque has appeared in forms of media, including animated television series. Most notably, Whitney Frost appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series Agent Carter, Whitney Frost first appeared in Tales of

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Madame Masque. Art by Jim Cheung.

Aristocracy
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Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class. The term derives from the Greek aristokratia, meaning rule of the best, at the time of the words origins in Ancient Greece, the Greeks conceived it as rule by the best qualified citizens—and often contrasted it favourably with monarchy, rule by a

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Throughout the centuries kings of Poland were elected by the nobility in the fields outside Warsaw

Captain America
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Captain America is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 from Timely Comics, Captain America was designed as a patriotic supersoldier who often fought the Axis powers of World War II and was Timely

Iron Man
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Iron Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, the character made his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39. He instead creates a suit of armor to save his life. Later, Stark augments his suit with weapon

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The Bleeding Edge Armor, like the Extremis Armor before it, is stored in Stark's bones, and can be assembled and controlled by his thoughts.

X-Men
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The X-Men is a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the characters first appeared in The X-Men #1 and they are among the most recognizable and successful intellectual properties of Marvel Comics, appearing in numerous books, television

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The X-Men train in the Danger Room, as depicted in X-Men Origins #1 (Oct. 2008). Art by Mike Mayhew.

North American Aerospace Defense Command
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Headquarters for NORAD and the NORAD/United States Northern Command center are located at Peterson Air Force Base in El Paso County, near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The nearby Cheyenne Mountain Complex has the Alternate Command Center, the NORAD commander and deputy commander are, respectively, a United States four-star general or equivalent and a

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NORAD Regions and Sectors

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NORAD Emblem

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The 25-ton North blast door in the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker is the main entrance to another blast door (background) beyond which the side tunnel branches into access tunnels to the main chambers.

Living Laser
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The Living Laser is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Don Heck, the made his first appearance in The Avengers #34. He would become an enemy of Iron Man and plays a key role in the end of the Iron Man. Arthur Parks started out as a scientist that invented small

Erik Josten
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Erik Josten, otherwise known as Power Man, Smuggler, Goliath and Atlas, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been a prominent member of both the Masters of Evil and the Thunderbolts, Erik Josten was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A former AWOL Marine turned mercenary, he is employed

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Atlas, from the cover of New Thunderbolts #12 Art by Tom Grummett.

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Erik Josten makes his first appearance (where he was known as Power Man). From The Avengers #21 (October 1965). Art by Jack Kirby.

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Erik Josten attacks Spider-Man in his first appearance as The Smuggler. From The Spectacular Spider-Man #49 (Dec. 1980). Art by Keith Pollard

Whirlwind (comics)
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Whirlwind is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Tales To Astonish #50 and was created by Stan Lee, born in Kansas City, Missouri, David Cannon is a mutant that could move at great speeds. After discovering his powers at an age, he turns to a life of cri

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Whirlwind as he appears on the cover of Avengers #139 (Sep. 1975). Art by John Romita Snr.

Heinrich Zemo
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Baron Zemo was a fictional supervillain that appeared in various American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was first seen in The Avengers #4, fury and His Howling Commandos #8, in the same month. Zemo was retroactively added into the history of Captain America upon the reintroduction to the Silver Age two issues prior. The character subse

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Heinrich, the 12th Baron Zemo. Art by Steve Epting.

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Heinrich Zemo explains how his hood became glued to his face. Art by Jack Kirby.

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Helmut Zemo as Citizen V. Art by Mark Bagley.

Avengers Mansion
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Avengers Mansion is a fictional building appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It has traditionally been the base of the Avengers, the enormous, city block-sized building is located at 890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City. Avengers Mansions address is 890 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, accor

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The Henry Clay Frick House on 5th Avenue was the inspiration to the Avengers Mansion

Grim Reaper (comics)
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Grim Reaper is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is also the brother of Wonder Man, the Grim Reaper first appeared in The Avengers #52 May, by Roy Thomas and John Buscema. He has been killed many times, depicted in Web of Spider-Man #46, Dark Reign, Lethal Legion #2, Chaos War, Av

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The Grim Reaper vs the Avengers, art by George Pérez

Ka-Zar (comics)
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Ka-Zar is the name of two jungle-dwelling fictional comic book characters published in the United States. The first Ka-Zar was named David Rand, and debuted in 1936, in 1939 he was adapted for his second iteration, a comic book character for Timely Comics, the 1930s and 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics. The second and more prominent Ka-Zar was na

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Kevin Plunder, the second Ka-Zar, battles dinosaurs in the Savage Land alongside his sabretooth tiger, Zabu. Art by Greg Land.

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Cover to the X-Men # 10 the first appearance of Ka-Zar and his sabretooth tiger, Zabu. Art by Jack Kirby.

Savage Land
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The Savage Land is a hidden fictional prehistoric land appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is a tropical preserve hidden in Antarctica, throughout time, it has served as a basis for many story arcs in Uncanny X-Men as well as in related books. The Savage Land first appeared in X-Men #10 and was created by Stan Lee, the

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Location of the Savage Land in Antarctica.

Wonder Man
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Wonder Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby, in 2012, Wonder Man was ranked 38th in IGNs list of The Top 50 Avengers. Wonder Man debuted in the superhero-team title The Avengers #9, four years later, Avengers #58 revisited the events

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Wonder Man #1 (Sept. 1991). Cover art by Jeff Johnson.

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Wonder Man in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Thunderbolts (comics)
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The Thunderbolts are a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team consists mostly of reformed supervillains, the Thunderbolts first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #449 and were created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley. However the final page of the first issue of their comic book revealed that the

Electro (Marvel Comics)
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Electro is the name of two fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Maxwell Dillon, the first Electro, is an enemy of Spider-Man who gained the ability to control electricity after being struck by lightning while working on a power line. Electro has since become one of Spider-Mans most enduring foes, bec

Siege (comics)
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Siege is an American comic book published by Marvel Comics from January 2010 to May 2010. It deals with the culmination of the Dark Reign story line, the story depicts Loki manipulating Osborn into leading an all-out assault on Asgard, at the time located within the United States. Captain America and his own Avengers lead a rebellion against Osborn

Hood (comics)
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Hood is a fictional character, a supervillain, and a crime boss appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Hood next appeared in the 2006 miniseries Beyond, a miniseries set in outer space, which had the character shift towards a slightly more anti-heroic position, as opposed to a villainous one. Brian Michael Bendis stated i

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The Hood. Art by Leinil Francis Yu.

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The Hood's crime syndicate. Art by Carlo Pagulayan.

Loki (comics)
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Loki is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the brother and often the enemy of Thor. He is based on the being of the name from Norse mythology. The character first appeared historically in Venus No.6 and in modern-day in Journey into Mystery No.85, the character was created by writer Stan Lee, s

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Cover art of Thor Vol 2 No. 64 (July 2003) Art by Ben Lai

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Loki in his first appearance and publication in the Venus comics (1949).

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Loki as the Scarlet Witch.

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Loki reincarnated, in Thor #617.

Moon Knight
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Moon Knight is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin, the character first appeared in Werewolf by Night #32, the character proved popular with readers and was granted a solo spot in Marvel Spotlight #28–29, written by Doug Moench with art by Don Perlin. The story, a

Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county

Echo (Marvel Comics)
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Echo, also known as Ronin, is a fictional character, a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as a character of Daredevil. She makes her first appearance in Daredevil Vol.2, #9 and she is a Native American and one of the very few deaf comic characters. When she dons her Echo guise,

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Echo. Art by Joe Quesada and David Mack.

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Maya Lopez. Art by David Mack.

Daken
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Akihiro, codename Daken is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Daken is the mutant son of Wolverine and his deceased wife Itsu and he possesses superhuman abilities similar to his father, and was a member of the Dark Avengers under the name Wolverine until the conclusion of the 2010 storyline, Siege.

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Daken as he appears on the cover of Daken: Dark Wolverine #1. Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli.

Assassination
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Assassination is the murder of a prominent person, often a political leader or ruler, usually for political reasons or payment. The word assassin is believed to derive from the word Hashshashin. It referred to a group of Nizari Shia Persians who worked against various Arab, founded by the Persian Hassan-i Sabbah, the Assassins were active in the fo

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The word "assassin" was derived from Hasan-i Sabbah and his Assassin's Order of Nizari Ismailism.

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Assassination of King Henry III of France

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Assassination of King Przemysł II of Poland

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Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; 1865 depiction. Assassin John Wilkes Booth on the right.

Nightmare (Marvel Comics)
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Nightmare is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted most commonly as one of Doctor Strange, Nightmare first appeared in Strange Tales #110 and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. He is the ruler of a Dream Dimension, where tormented humans are brought during

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Cover art for Incredible Hercules #118. Art by John Romita, Jr.

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is an ongoing American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The solo series initially debuted in January 2015 and ran for 8 issues, the initial and reboot series are written by Ryan North with art by Erica Henderson, based on the Squirrel Girl character created by Will Murray and Steve Ditko. Critics have prais